The Story of Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes

Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting to be revealed. Once someone stumbles upon one of these sunken treasures in Lake Michigan or Lake Superior, Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Maritime Preservation and Archaeology program, gets a call. Her job is to investigate and survey shipwreck sites. She and her colleagues have also unearthed dugout canoes that were fashioned thousands of years old by the Indigenous people who lived on this land.