Even at 6.3 million pounds, this Big Mack is a bit slimmed down from its predecessor. But make no doubt about it: this is still one smashmouth brute of a ship. The U.S. Coast Guard’s next major icebreaker to ply the Great Lakes is a month into her sea trials and is coming along nicely ...
The image on the label of Great Lakes Nosferatu is enough that it could probably scare a small child. But as grim as it may be, it represents a beer of immense weight. I’m talking about a beer that deserves respect of many, but is known by few. This is a beer that is so ...
Having spent my entire life living on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, the mysteries of the Great Lakes shipwrecks have always been of huge interest. Add to that, my father was a merchant marine on the Great Lakes until the day he died having been a member of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald ...
The Great Lakes region will forever serve as a final resting place for countless crew members and passengers who lost their lives in the estimated 6,000+ shipwrecks that have been seized by Mother Nature. Perhaps one of the most famous of these shipwrecks is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which was named for the newly appointed ...
The Bermuda Triangle is famous for its ghastly amount of disappearances of airplanes and ships that find themselves in that specific area of the Atlantic waters. But there is a similar, and perhaps even more dangerous, mysterious triangle located right in the heart of the US. The Great Lakes Triangle! The Great Lakes Triangle allegedly ...
