ALPENA, MI – A wooden steam barge caught fire and sank 110 years ago near Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay, officials said. Today, it ...

On Aug. 21, a team of scientists confirmed there are more than 40 sinkholes on the lakebed in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. This isn’t the first time sinkholes have been ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater ...

Shipwreck hunters found the wreck of the Margaret A. Muir, a 130-foot, three-masted schooner, near Algoma. Caitlin Looby is a Report for America corps member who writes about the environment and the ...

On the evening of Oct. 13, 1893, the two ships were off Point Betsie near Frankfort when they were caught in 90 mph gale, ...

Divers know that marine protected areas or “MPAs” are parts of the ocean that are protected from fishing or other human ...

Authorities have recovered a body near the SS Wisconsin shipwreck in Lake Michigan following resumed search efforts.

SUMMER ISLAND, Mich.—Steve Libert steered his finicky pontoon boat and aging crew of scuba divers to a spot offshore this ...

The fabled ship was once called the 'Holy Grail' for shipwreck hunters probing the depths of America's Great Lakes. It was built by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ...

Recent stories in the Wall Street Journal, publications in Britain and elsewhere have recounted the decades-long quest of Steve and Kathie Libert — who grew up in what today is Huber Heights — to ...

Eight feet beneath the clear, green water sat the skeletal wreck of the first full-size European ship to sail—and sink—in the Upper Great Lakes, in 1679: French explorer Robert La Salle’s Le ...