The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...
A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...
The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The Soo Locks are open. That means ships are moving through all of the Great Lakes, bringing out “boat nerds” for spring ship watching. Whether they’re navigating a narrow ...
The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...
The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...
ABOARD THE WOLVERINE — Gliding imperceptibly across the horizon, the gigantic Great Lakes freighters are dark, silent, massive and imposing. Yet everyone from ship captain down to deck hand will tell ...
On this episode of Great Lakes Now: It’s been 50 years since a freighter sank in the Great Lakes, but in June 2024, one ship came dangerously close. For one crew member, the experience was life ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In 1980, the Steamship William G. Mather made its last voyage. Now it is permanently anchored behind the Great Lakes Science Center where it shares its industrial history with ...