2 missing kayakers from Illinois found dead near Door County, Wisconsin
Two people from Illinois were found dead on Monday after they went missing while kayaking in Lake Michigan near Door County, Wisconsin, over the weekend.
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Two people from Illinois were found dead on Monday after they went missing while kayaking in Lake Michigan near Door County, Wisconsin, over the weekend.
After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline.
The Wisconsin Historical Society says the Frank D. Barker was sailing for Escanaba, Michigan in 1887 when it hit bad weather and ran off course.
The Great Lakes mapping effort will pinpoint hundreds of shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and identify fisheries, a marine scientist said.
The 17-year-old from Eagan, Minnesota was last seen swimming near Kemil Beach in Beverly Shores, per the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
The 130-foot Margaret A. Muir schooner "had lay undetected for over a century, despite hundreds of fishing boats passing over," historians say.
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A dog still needs to be reunited with its human after they were rescued from the icy waters of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin on Thursday.
Trinidad sank about 10 miles off the coast of Algoma, "taking all the crew's possessions and the captain's pet Newfoundland dog with her," historians said.
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew's long-ago possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin's coastline.
The operators of a historic ferry that carries traffic across Lake Michigan between Michigan and Wisconsin say it is out of service for the rest of the season after its ramp system was damaged in July.
Luke Laidley jumped into the lake to help at least one child who had fallen off a raft being pulled by the boat, witnesses said.
The search in Lake Michigan for a missing swimmer off the shore of a Milwaukee suburb has turned into a recovery mission.
U.S. states and Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes region are looking for ways to cooperate on preventing Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.
Authorities say one diver is dead and another missing after a diving incident on Lake Michigan near South Milwaukee. Petty Officer Gavin Shepherd says the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a dive boat at 2 p.m. Friday about 17 miles (27 kilometers) east-southeast of Milwaukee for a call that a person had surfaced and was unresponsive.
Officials say genetic material from Asian carp has been detected near Lake Michigan, but a follow-up search turned up none of the invasive fish. Most of the 401 water samples were negative, but six registered DNA hits for silver or bighead carp in Lake Calumet, a few miles from Lake Michigan.
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Rain, winds and above-freezing temperatures are in the forecast for this weekend. Those conditions are expected to bring melting and weakening ice in the Great Lakes region.
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Federal crews have discovered two Asian carp in the Illinois River, 12 miles closer to Lake Michigan than where others of that size previously were seen.
Gwen Jorgensen won the ITU World Triathlon Series' Grand Final on Friday for her second straight season championship. Jorgensen, from St. Paul, Minnesota, has won 12 straight events. She finished the 1,500-meter swim in Lake Michigan, 40-kilometer bike ride and 10-kilometer run in 1 hour, 55 minutes, 36 seconds, rallying from 17th after the bike leg.
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Authorities say a Wisconsin man has died after he went overboard while sailing on Lake Michigan. The Racine County Sheriff's Office says it got a call around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday about a vessel in distress on the lake.
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A man in Northern Michigan discovered some spectacular ice caves forming on Lake Michigan. When Eric Lepaugh saw mounds forming along the lakeshore, he made the trek out onto the frozen waters and found some spectacular ice caves.
