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Jim Gentile, president of Our World Underwater, has informed us that he has regrettably been forced to cancel the 2020 OWU show.
Read moreSince their accidental release in North America in the 1970s, silver carp have expanded their range in the Mississippi River Basin and have been moving northwards towards Lake Michigan.
Read moreHigh concentrations of human antidepressants and their metabolized remnants have been detected in the brain tissue of 10 fish species in the Niagara River, in the US.
Bass and walleye are among the fish species affected.
Read moreI was then fortunate enough to work on a documentary in Lake Huron where we located and explored several new wrecks. I was amazed by how blue and clear the water was.
In 2011, I was fortunate to work on Project Shiphunt, a documentary film for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Sony.
Read moreThe goal is to help preserve the state's shipwrecks by giving divers another option besides hooking a line directly onto the wreck, as is customary now.
Read moreThe latest find, A rare 18th century built sloop identified as the Washington (also known as Lady Washington), has been discovered in Lake Ontario off the shores of Oswego, New York by the seasoned wreckhunters who are a
Read moreLast July, David Trotter, a shipwreck hunter who had spent 30 years searching for a century-old ship, and a team of divers finally located the missing vessel: a 436-foot steamship named Hydrus, which sunk during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
Read moreI had lived in North America for a few years before I gave the Great Lakes much thought.
Read moreShipwreck explorers Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville began their initial search for vessel in September 2008. What was thought to be an easy shipwreck to find turned out to be more of a challenge than they expected, Kennard said.
Read moreThe Ottawa-based steamer was hauling lumber across the lake's eastern end, bound for Oswego, when it ran into rough conditions in late September 1916.
Read moreThe same team who located Henry B. Smith in May have now found what may be the deepest shipwreck in Lake Superior.
Read moreThe Atlas, a two masted schooner, was built in Dexter, NY in 1838 and owned by Ortha Little & Son for the specific purpose of transporting building stone from the quarries in the Chaumont, NY area.
Read moreA group of shipwreck hunters has found a previously undiscovered wreck sitting largely intact amid a spilled load of iron ore in about 535 feet of water offshore from Marquette, Michigan, and all evidence points to it being the Smith.
Read moreThe Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy in 1940. First used in combat by the British in Europe, the Wildcat was the only effective fighter available to the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during the early part of Second World War.
More than 17,000 pilots completed the training in Lake Michigan. The aircraft carriers used for the training docked at Chicago's Navy Pier. The pilots flew from Glenview Naval Air Station in Glenview.
Read moreEarly canal boats prior to the 1850’s were limited in length to 78 feet as the locks of the original Erie and Oswego Canals were built to only 90 feet.
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