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Ice eggs, also known as ice balls, are a rare phenomenon caused by a process…
Ice eggs, also known as ice balls, are a rare phenomenon caused by a process…
The City of Cleveland is the largest and most difficult-to-access wreck in the Tobermory area.…
The Detroit River Canadian Cleanup (DRCC) executes the Remedial Action Plan (RAP) on behalf of…
Shelf ice forms when a portion of a lake’s surface freezes. It is frequently washed…
A documentary film about Canadian Great Lakes commercial fisheries. Last Boat on the Lake is…
Photo Credit: Michigan Mysteries The 138 foot schooner Gilbert Morrison disappeared somewhere in the Manitou…
This annual event commemorates the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975,…
Is a sixth great lake hidden beneath the Ottawa River? Jill Heinerth investigated the largest…
Original Photo Credit Unknown Gert Wellisch (1896-1966) spent her summer vacations as a child in…
More than 600 people have drowned in the Great Lakes since 2010. Jamie Racklyeft was…
The five great lakes of North America – Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario –…
In this breathtaking feature-length documentary from 1982, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and an NFB crew sail…
Registration is open for the 2022 Great Lakes Public Forum, which will take place in Niagara Falls,…
Ice pancakes, a rare phenomenon that creates icy circles in the water, appeared in Lake…
Ice volcanoes can be fascinating to observe, but keep a safe distance. They have brittle…
Many books on scuba diving/maritime disasters have been published over the course of time, almost…
Canadian scuba diver Terry Irvine is pleased, honoured and excited to be presenting at the…
Photo captions from left: Lt. Frank Moody. Photo: Air Force Historical Research Agency; Wayne Lusardi…
The Great Lakes and the difficulties they face are discussed in this four-part Zoom series,…
Photo Credit via Facebook Stuart Seldon’s 11th edition of his Reefs and Wrecks Calendar has…
The SS Regina was a Merchant Mutual Line cargo ship that was based in Montreal,…
In the male-dominated maritime shipping industry, Capt. Charlene Munden is making her mark. She’s balancing…
A accident was avoided near Port Huron, Michigan, thanks to a series of alarm horns…
During a storm in November 1902, the propeller-driven bulk freighter Bannockburn went missing with 20…
“Sweetwater Sailors” will take you on a Great Lakes trip. Bob Ojala, a former Coast…
Arthur Amos (pictured here at the launch of Tobermory’s Hyperbaric Chamber in 2016) was a…
Wicked Winds and Wrecks. The Witch of November is mentioned in Gordon Lightfoot’s song “The…
NOAA today released for public comment a draft plan for a national marine sanctuary in…
Chris’s Chat’s, third edition is a recent dive on the shipwreck called the Acme in…
The Queen of the Inland Seas, the S.S. South American, was the last of the…
Image via Facebook Save Ontario Shipwrecks is inviting both members and the general public to the…
A “missing” story intrigues us and solving it is the best part of a mystery.…
With an unofficial virtual celebration, we’re celebrating the official opening of the Welland Canal for…
When the Endangered Species (ESA) Act took effect in 2008, Lake Sturgeon was listed as…
Known as “The Blue-Collar Titanic”, in 1915 a passenger ship named the Eastland capsized in…
Photo Credit: Helen Cooper A 72-foot (22 m) brigantine (two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast…
The ice shelves have made their way back into Lake Huron specificity at the Sarnia…
HMS Ontario, a British warship, sunk during a storm in Lake Ontario on October 31,…
According to Dusty Klifman, the Gorgeous wreck of the F.T. Barney sits 165′ down in…
A free online interactive map of lighthouses in the Great Lakes area has been published…
Photo Credit – Facebook From Environmental Defence Canada We’re launching a special project with documentary…
Minnesota Shipwreck Hunters, Ken Merryman and Jerry Eliason recently discovered the Pere Marquette 18 in…
The new 420-page book “DANIEL J. MORRELL-Lost, But No Longer Forgotten” is now accepting pre-orders.…
There are few shipwrecked vessels in all of the Great Lakes that can match the…
The Marine Museum has moved from the Kingston Dry Dock site at 55 Ontario St. to a new site at 53 Yonge St., at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Kingston. The museum ship Alexander Henry is no longer on display.