As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves on the Great Lakes. This makes it the most ...

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

The final resting place of what was once the "safest ship afloat" was discovered after 132 years. Only one man, a wheelsman ...

Thousands of undiscovered shipwrecks are scattered across the Great Lakes. In just the last year ... 30, 1893, after taking on water from a massive wave near Algoma, in Kewaunee County.

The Great Lakes surf season peaks in fall and winter, depending on the cold winds to produce the biggest waves. With the right gear and training to keep risks down, surfing during the winter can ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail ...

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.