The Keystone State was in trouble. Big waves slammed into the wooden steamer's sides as it rocked in the water near Port Austin under the weight of a powerful November storm. And then it was gone, ...
David Trotter and a tight-knit crew of explorers have spent decades looking for lost vessels. The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that was still missing. LAKE HURON ...
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...
A ship that went missing in Lake Michigan 138 years ago was discovered by a rafter and shipwreck hunter from Door County, located on the peninsula of northeast Wisconsin. In mid-July, Matt Olson, ...
CNN — The ocean is full of mysteries that lead to legendary lore. During a recent moonlit harbor excursion, conversation quickly turned to tales of piracy and exploration. A guide shared stories from ...
A boat tour guide discovered the remains of a massive shipwreck that had been missing for almost 140 years. Experts believe the wreck to be the remains of the Frank D. Barker—a schooner that sank ...
An exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually ...
A man who owns a rafting company has discovered three shipwrecks, officials say. Matt Olson, who owns a Wisconsin adventure rafting company, was looking for new locations to take his customers on Lake ...
Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ...
Most people can’t imagine stumbling upon one shipwreck, let alone three, but that’s just reality for boat tour guide Matt Olson. Over the last few years, Olson discovered two other shipwrecks—the Grey ...