Midwest Lakes Policy Center

August 21, 2009

Quetico: Into the Wild

A new book is out celebrating the beauty of the Quetico Provincial Park. Quetico: Into the Wild, is filled with photos and maps of the region. Gary and Joanie McGuffin spent three years exploring the trails and lakes of the park to help create the book.

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July 21, 2009

Kyle Spangler Shipwreck


Dive down to the Kyle Spangler shipwreck in this video. The ship sank in 1860 near Presque Isle, Lake Huron after a collision with the Racine. It is under 185 feet of water.

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June 25, 2009

Boundary Waters Videos and Information

Heading to the Boundary Waters this summer, or wishing you could paddle the many lakes of the wilderness? Watch the "Leave No Trace" video which is required viewing by all canoeists to enter the wilderness. Also, here is a...

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June 9, 2009

Lake of the Ozarks News

Recent news from around the Lake of the Ozarks. There may be an alligator loose in the Lake of the Ozarks. The pet was taken from a residence and may have been released. Please call the Morgan County Sheriff's Department...

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June 3, 2009

Boating and the Recession

How is the current recession effecting boat owners, and the companies that make boats and equipment? Many boat makers have recently filed for bankruptcy, and boat owners are having to find creative ways to keep their boats in the water....

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May 26, 2009

Birch Bark Canoe Building

Building canoes by traditional methods, such as Birch bark is a dying skill. Watch a man build a Birch bark canoe in Canada in this video....

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May 22, 2009

Race to Mackinac

The 101st Race to Mackinac is quickly approaching. The 333-mile race is one of the longest and largest freshwater boat races in the world. The race is run from Chicago, Illinois to Mackinac Island, Michigan. 350 boats signed up to...

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May 14, 2009

Eastland Disaster

Learn more about the S.S. Eastland shipwreck and disaster in this video. On July 24th, 1915 the Eastland rolled over while tied to the dock on the Chicago River. Of the 2,572 people aboard, 845 people perished. It still...

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March 30, 2009

Riverside Shipwreck

Dive down to one of the shipwrecks recently located in Lake Erie in this video. The Riverside, a 133-foot-long schooner built in 1870 is located about 25 miles north of Cleveland in about 80 feet of water....

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March 17, 2009

Ballast Water Discharge General Permit

Wisconsin is trying to require all ocean-going vessels by 2012 to cleanse their ballast water 100 times more stringently than a proposed international standard when traveling on the Great Lakes. By 2013, all newly constructed ships that dock at Wisconsin...

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February 17, 2009

Unknown Shipwreck

Dive down to one of the many shipwrecks along the Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan in this video. The passage is one of the most dangerous throughout the Great Lakes....

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February 9, 2009

Griffon Shipwreck

The French government is in a legal fight over the rights to a shipwreck in Lake Michigan. The Griffon is 17th-Century ship that was built by the explorer La Salle. Both France and Michigan are seeking title to the ship...

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December 29, 2008

Rare Schooner Found

Dive down to the only dagger-board schooner shipwreck found in the Great Lakes in this video. The schooner was used on Lake Ontario in the early 1800's. The ship was found in over 500 feet of water, off the...

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December 11, 2008

Vessel General Permit

New permits required under the Clean Water Act have many in the shipping industry scrambling. The new permits will be required on December 19th for discharges of Ballast water, gray water and deck runoff. The new regulations could end the...

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November 26, 2008

Great Lakes Diving and Shipwrecks

Dive down to the Minneapolis in this video. The 226-foot wooden steamer lies 124 feet deep in the middle of the Straits of Mackinac. It sank April 14, 1894. Learn more about diving the Great Lakes in this article....

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November 11, 2008

Edmund Fitzgerald Video

Learn more about the tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and dive down to the wreck in this video....

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October 23, 2008

Madeira Shipwreck

Dive down to the Madeira Shipwreck in this video, the Madeira was one of 20 ships wrecked during the Mataafa Storm that swept across the Great Lakes in November of 1905. This shipwreck is located near the Split Rock...

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September 24, 2008

MPCA Ballast Water Rules

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's citizens' board has approved strict rules for ships that discharge ballast water on Lake Superior. By 2016 all ballast water must be treated before being released into the waters of Minnesota, or if the ship...

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September 2, 2008

Green Ships Initiative

Did you know, that all ships used by the NOAA now run on biodiesel throughout the Great Lakes? The fuel and oil used for the research ships is made from soybeans, rapeseed and canola. The project to convert the ships...

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August 25, 2008

Great Lakes Cruising

Many people like to go on cruises, but did you know you can take one on the Great Lakes? The Great Lakes Cruise Company offers cruises on the Great Lakes. You can tour Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, or check out...

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August 22, 2008

BWI's on the Rise

According to officials in and around the Twin Cities of Minnesota, high gas prices have led to more BWI's or "Boating While Intoxicated" arrests. The Hennepin County Water Patrol has made over 60 arrests this summer, mostly on Lake Minnetonka....

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July 29, 2008

Boating and Businesses Take a Hit

Boating has taken a big hit this summer. It started with horrible weather and flooding earlier in the summer, and now the economy and gas prices have also taken their toll. Boat sales across the U.S. are at 40 year...

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June 5, 2008

Straits of Mackinaw Underwater Preserve (Video)

Dive down to two ships lost in the Straits of Mackinaw Underwater Preserve, in this video. The Sandusky and the Martin Stalker are well preserved by the cold temperatures of the Straits. The Sandusky was lost at sea in...

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Ballast Water and VHS

David Hand, a professor at Michigan Tech, has devised a way to treat ballast water in boats. The method would kill the virus that causes viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a disease that has been attacking fish populations in lakes. The...

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May 23, 2008

Gas Prices and Lakes

High gas prices may increase visitors to lakes across the Midwest. Lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin are expected to be busy this Memorial Day, and throughout the summer. High gas prices are keeping Midwesterners closer to home, with some resorts...

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May 19, 2008

Deadly Weekend In Missouri

The MLPC reminds people to follow basic safety while enjoying local waterways, after a deadly start to the boating season. Please try to never swim alone, and wear a life jacket at all times while boating or fishing. Three people...

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May 13, 2008

Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan

A new exhibit, titled "Lost & Found Shipwrecks of West Michigan," opens at the Dekker Huis/Zeeland Historical Society Museum in Michigan. The show features exhibits on 14 ships that were lost in Lake Michigan....

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April 25, 2008

Largest Boat on the Great Lakes

What is the largest boat to ever sail or cruise on the Great Lakes? The Paul R. Tregurtha, at over 1,013 feet long. The video above shows the ship heading into Lake Huron....

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April 22, 2008

Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

Did you know, that there are about 8,000 shipwrecks at the bottom of the Great Lakes? The freshwater of the lakes, and cold temperatures keep the ships preserved in a more pristine state than their ocean counterparts....

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March 26, 2008

Icebreaker Samuel Risley

The Icebreaker C.C.G.S Samuel Risley signals the start of another shipping season on the Great Lakes....

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March 24, 2008

St. Lawrence Seaway

Learn more about the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the amazing effort it took to complete the project in this article....

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February 27, 2008

William Young Shipwreck

Dive down to the William Young, a wooden schooner lost in the Straits of Mackinaw in 1891 in this video....

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February 15, 2008

Chain O' Lakes Noise Pollution

The Fox Waterway Agency is working on an idea to stop the loud noise on the Chain O’ Lakes in Illinois. People with loud, high performance boat engines might have to pass a specific test when obtaining required boat stickers...

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January 16, 2008

Coast Guard Icebreakers

Are you interested in ice cutters or icebreakers on the Great Lakes? The following sites feature the Mackinaw, which is a Great Lakes Icebreaker. The design of the Mackinaw was based on the Wind Class but was wider and longer,...

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January 11, 2008

Dunderberg Video

Dive to and explore the shipwreck "Dunderberg" which was lost in 140 feet of Lake Huron, in this video. This three-masted schooner was lost in 1867....

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December 4, 2007

Dive to the Samuel P. Ely

This video is from a dive to the Samuel P. Ely near Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Samuel P. Ely was a topsail schooner measuring 200 feet in length, with a 31-foot beam, and a 13-foot depth of hold. The...

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December 3, 2007

Michigan Underwater Preserves

What are the Michigan Underwater Preserves? The Michigan Underwater Preserve system was created in 1980. Michigan’s eleven underwater preserves include nearly 2,300 square miles of Great Lakes. They preserve a legacy of shipwrecks and artifacts along the bottom of the...

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November 29, 2007

Chain O' Lakes Speed Limit

Fox Waterway Agency officials in Illinois will hold discussions regarding speed restrictions on the Chain O' Lakes. Those changes might include establishing a speed limit for certain areas to help curtail accidents and reduce noise. There is no speed limit...

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November 1, 2007

Muskegon Harbor

Muskegon's harbor is a deep-water port where 1,000-foot lake freighters are a frequent sight. In 2007, two 1,000-foot freighters were stuck in the lake bottom at the harbor entrance. Muskegon's harbor, which normally requires dredging every two to three years,...

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October 23, 2007

How do you Eskimo or Kayak Roll?

Watch one of the most important maneuvers to learn, if you want to advance your kayaking. The kayak or eskimo roll is shown in this video....

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September 12, 2007

Shipwreck-Cyprus

An ore carrier like the one in this video, was found at the bottom of Lake Superior. Scientists have discovered the wreckage of an ore carrier that sank during a storm on Lake Superior 100 years ago. Only one...

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August 31, 2007

Powerboat Ban

High water levels at 21 lakes in Indiana have prompted a ban on motorized watercraft going into the Labor Day weekend. The DNR lifted watercraft restrictions on three lakes that had first been issued Aug. 24 following heavy rains. The...

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August 27, 2007

Great Lakes Cruise Ships

Efforts to revive the cruise industry on the Great Lakes have stalled, due to low water levels and a short sailing season. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, a German company, has pulled its popular ship, the MS Columbus, from the Great Lakes for...

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July 24, 2007

Geneva Lake Heavily Used

Another busy day on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Geneva Lake in Walworth County is the most heavily used body of water per acre in the state. Aerial photos taken of the...

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June 26, 2007

Frank O'Connor Shipwreck

This video shows the wreck of the Frank O'Connor. One of the largest wooden ships ever built, the steamer Frank O'Connor lies in 65 feet of water in Lake Michigan. It is about 2.6 miles from Cana Island in...

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June 22, 2007

Shipwreck Found

A steamship that sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Erie. An amateur shipwreck prospector, used sonar on his boat to discover the General Anthony Wayne in 50 feet of water. The...

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May 18, 2007

Lake Superior Ports

Dry-bulk cargo shipments on the Great Lakes have fell 28 percent compared to a year ago. Falling water levels and lack of adequate dredging were leading factors in the decrease. Vessels loading iron ore and coal at Lake Superior...

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May 4, 2007

Three Lakes Chain

Boaters who use the Three Lakes Chain of Lakes in Wisconsin this summer may find themselves being watched more carefully than other summers. After months of studying traffic patterns on the chain, the Three Lakes Town Board has decided to...

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April 13, 2007

Did you know?

For every inch the Great Lakes recede, ships must reduce their loads between 50 and 270 tons. At the end of last shipping season, with waters particularly low on Lake Superior, ships lost about 8,000 tons per trip -- about...

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March 26, 2007

Boathouses on Lake Vermilion

Clusters of boathouses on Lake Vermilion, Mn., date back to the early 1900s and are a piece of Minnesota history that many want to preserve. To keep the boathouses afloat and the memories alive, a group of local residents is...

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March 23, 2007

St Lawrence River and Seaway

One of the many ships to use the St. Lawrence. The Saint Lawrence River originates at the outflow of Lake Ontario. From there, it passes Cornwall, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City before draining into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence,...

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March 1, 2007

St Mary's/Southdown Challenger

Currently holding the honors of being the oldest lake boat still trading on the Great Lakes, the self unloading cement carrier Southdown Challenger was built as a traditional Great Lakes bulk carrier as hull #17 by Great Lakes Engineering...

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February 20, 2007

Great Lakes Shipping

Lack of investment in the country’s navigation infrastructure has significantly reduced the efficiency of waterborne commerce said a leading Great Lakes association. The President of Lake Carriers’ Association and an officer of Great Lakes Maritime Task Force, believes Marine transportation...

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January 31, 2007

Great Loop Waterway

Only days from becoming the first woman to sail solo around the 6,000-mile America’s Great Loop inland waterway, Mary Ellen Mangile was almost killed by eight-foot waves in a storm on the body of water known as the graveyard of...

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January 8, 2007

Ice Boating Video

You are in the drivers seat in this video as you race across Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....

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December 20, 2006

Ice Boating/Sailing

An Ice boat (seen here on Lake Wingra, Wisconsin) is a boat or purpose built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or skates and designed to run over ice instead of water. Iceboats...

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December 13, 2006

Milan Shipwreck

Shipwreck explorers Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville said they located the schooner Milan about five miles off Point Breeze, 30 miles west of Rochester, New York. They videotaped the 93-foot-long, square-stern vessel this year using an unmanned submersible built with...

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November 27, 2006

Rouse Simmons

The story of the schooner Rouse Simmons, a Muskegon-owned lumber boat better known as the "Christmas Tree Ship," has some added chapters after a diving expedition over the summer probed the site where the vessel went down in Lake Michigan...

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November 13, 2006

Canoes

Last few days of canoe season creeping in....

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November 10, 2006

Sailing

Quick clip of sailing the open sea....

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November 1, 2006

Shipwreck Dive Video

Have you ever wanted to dive to a shipwreck in the Great Lakes? Watch the video and see what it is like....

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October 2, 2006

Spencer F. Baird

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently put into service the M/V Spencer F. Baird, a new vessel that will stock millions of native lake trout in the Great Lakes. The boat was christened and commissioned during a ceremony at...

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September 21, 2006

EPA, Ballast Water

A federal court in California has ordered the U.S. EPA to regulate ballast water discharges from freighters, a ruling that has major implications for the Great Lakes shipping industry. Environmental groups sued the EPA in 1999 after the federal agency...

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September 15, 2006

Marina

A small marina on the shore of Lake Superior....

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August 21, 2006

Ballast Water

Many cities and states must toughen disappointing new rules intended to stop more destructive invasive species from devastating the Great Lakes. Regulations introduced this summer continue to put the lakes at significant risk from invaders that damage the underwater and...

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July 18, 2006

Shipwrecks

Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes Griffon--Lost in 1679 on Lake Michigan or Lake Huron, the boat was built by French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle. Lodner Phillips' submarine--Lost in 1853 on Lake Erie, this was one of the...

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May 12, 2006

Wisconsin Boating Safety Course

Registered boats in Wisconsin number about 636,000, up about 100,000 from a decade earlier. Last year, 22 people died in Wisconsin boating accidents. That followed a record 24 deaths a year earlier. So it makes sense to ensure that operators...

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April 27, 2006

Sailing

Sailing season begins....

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March 30, 2006

Boats

Boats lined up for a day on the lake....

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March 24, 2006

The Griffon Shipwreck

A ship that has been missing since 1679 may lie 100 feet underwater near the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A legal fight over rights to the wreck so far have prevented anyone from confirming whether a shipwreck near Poverty Island...

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March 10, 2006

Iowa Boating

The Iowa Natural Resources Commission approved a nighttime speed limit of 25 mph from a half-hour after sunset to sunrise on all Dickinson County lakes. That move was supported by residents of the Iowa Great Lakes vacation area to improve...

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February 28, 2006

Great Lakes Shipwrecks

The Edmund Fitzgerald is not the only ship to wreck on Lake Superior. But the giant ore freighter is the only one to get a haunting musical elegy from folk singer Gordon Lightfoot. The Edmund Fitzgerald which sank on Nov....

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December 2, 2005

Shipping, Great Lakes

Oceangoing vessels cruise the Great Lakes loaded with midwest commodities, but they also can carry unwelcome invasive species deep inside their hulls. The invasion of zebra mussels and other non-native species that live in ships' ballast tanks is a multimillion-dollar...

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November 18, 2005

Rock Lake

Rock lake near Lake Mills, Wisconsin may have smaller boathouses if regulations pass this fall. Included in the city's proposal are regulations that a boathouse can be a maximum of 550 square feet in size, and must be a minimum...

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November 11, 2005

Edmund Fitzgerald

In an eerie coincidence, freighter traffic stopped as storms swept over the upper Great Lakes late Wednesday and early Thursday - the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ships headed into safe harbors to ride out the...

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November 7, 2005

Tankers Collide

Two tankers collided on Venezuela's western Lake Maracaibo on Sunday, but authorities expected key oil shipping lanes to be unaffected by the accident, a port official said. Local port official Capt. Oscar Ramirez told Globovision television that one of...

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November 6, 2005

Missing

A man was missing Saturday night in Lake Michigan after the sailboat of which he was captain tipped, and he fell into the water. Milwaukee, Wisconsin Police Department and U.S. Coast Guard officials would not release the man's name, although...

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November 4, 2005

Disappeared

All Capt. Donald Erickson saw on that cruel November night on Lake Superior 30 years ago were two ducks tossed about in the waves. Battered by hurricane-force winds, the skipper and his crew frantically searched for the Edmund Fitzgerald, one...

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October 24, 2005

Shipwrecks

Will Lake Erie become a Shipwreck holiday destination? Ohio state officials, lake historians, and underwater archeologists are taking another tack. They hope to designate an area east of Kelleys Island and three other Lake Erie zones as Ohio's first "underwater...

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October 14, 2005

Boat Storage

Boats getting ready to be put away for the season....

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October 5, 2005

Mott Lake

A dozen years ago, a paddleboat sank in about seven feet of water on Mother's Day as it approached the dock at the end of its maiden voyage on Mott Lake northeast of Flint. The 110 passengers put on...

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October 4, 2005

Lake George

Two Finger Lakes tour boat operators said Monday they were baffled by the capsizing Sunday of the 40-foot Ethan Allen on Lake George. "I was just talking about this with my dad (William Simiele), and we can't conceive of how...

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October 3, 2005

Hackercraft

Tony Nalbandian owns one of the most sought-after World War II-era boats on Lake St. Clair: a 35-foot mahogany Hackercraft Runabout equipped with a 1944 Allison fighter plane engine. The 17.10 cubic inch motor that powers the wooden gem was...

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September 17, 2005

Shipwreck

Until a fuzzy, black blotch showed up on Paul Ehorn's sonar, the 420-foot steamer Senator was the largest undiscovered wreck in Lake Michigan. Using research he had put together over several years, Ehorn, 60, of Elgin, Ill., located the Senator...

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September 12, 2005

Boats

Boats waiting to be used on a Summer day....

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September 7, 2005

Michigan Lakes

Area lakes resembled aquatic parking lots this summer as parched metro Detroiters looked for any way to beat the persistent heat. But an increase in traffic on the lakes didn't always translate into a rise in danger on the waters....

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August 18, 2005

Safety

Always remember to be safe around any body of water, no matter how experienced you are. MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) -- About three-quarters of the way into a grueling, 80-mile kayak trip from Milwaukee, eight men raising money for cancer research...

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July 12, 2005

kayakwisconsin.net

We have been linked to this kayak site. Check them out if you are interested in kayaking some great routes throughout the Midwest and the world. www.kayakwisconsin.net...

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June 27, 2005

Boat Jumpers

Interesting article by John Maniaci - State Journal, neat summer job. LAKE GENEVA - Perched on the edge of a moving 75- foot yacht and clutching a handful of rolled-up mock mail, a confident and smiling Adam Derus braced himself...

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June 21, 2005

Boats

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