High Waters in the Great Lakes Reveal Two Centuries-Old Shipwrecks
By: Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine
The depths of the Great Lakes are littered with the sodden remains of an estimated 6,000 sunken ships. Many of these wrecks—preserved by the cold, fresh water of the so-called inland seas—are nearly pristine, frozen in their final death throes for centuries.
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