A search team has discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale more than 150 years ago. The Lac La Belle left Milwaukee in October 1872.
  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    3 days ago

    The Great Lakes are home to anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 shipwrecks, most of which remain undiscovered, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Water Library.

    It’s like the searchers aren’t even trying, sunken ships are like the main feature of the bottom at this point.
    (For real tho - the corporate greed on not just building better ships to handle the bad weather that happens a few times per season, or even just directly to handle harsh winter weather, was real. They were losing a few ships evey storm.)

    • redsand@infosec.pub
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      3 days ago

      The great lakes are fresh water seas. Relative to the Mediterranean that’s not even that many ships on bottom