This map is awork in progress. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity to explore and connect with many of the shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. We hope that it will provide a glimpse into Great Lakes maritime heritage to all who want to get wet or stay dry. We do not guarantee its acc...
The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve shipping safety, Murawski said. A map also would help predict how bottom features affect storm...
After 30 years of colonization, quaggas have displaced zebra mussels as the dominant mussel in the Great Lakes. Zebras made up more than 98% of mussels in Lake Michigan in 2000, according to the University of California, Riverside's Center for Invasive Species Research. Five years later, qua...
The Unknown (Image credit: University of Hawaii | NOAA) Divers from the University of Hawaii's Marine Option Program measure and map out an unidentified vessel. The craft was found during a survey of sunken World War II-era wrecks in the waters close to the shore of Makena in Maui, Hawai...
The Madeira crashed into a rock formation in one of the biggest storms in Great Lakes history. In this one storm, 20 ships were damaged or completely lost. While waves were smashing Madeira to pieces against the base of a cliff, one of her crew members grabbed a rope and jumped off the...
The major contributions of their explorations included: the first systematic plot of currents and ocean temperatures, a map of bottom deposits, the discovery of 715 new genera, 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, and the discovery of numerous life forms, even at great ocean depths.The ...
The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve shipping safety, Murawski said. A map also would help predict how bottom features affect storm...
The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve shipping safety, Murawski said. A map also would help predict how bottom features affect storm s...