Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing ...

Jennifer Boehme spent her childhood combing Florida beaches for treasures, and now she leads a far more ambitious exploration, spearheading an effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes. As executive ...

Unless you’re someone with a deep (pun intended) fascination with the world’s bodies of water, it might be a challenge to fathom just how far down they can go. Michigan is surrounded by the Great ...

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of 62 feet, but it is also the most biologically productive. All of the Great Lakes rank among the 15 largest lakes in the world ...

Yes. Though, it is rare for the entire lake system to freeze over, ice coverage can still reach 90% or more. According to GLERL's records, two lakes have frozen over completely: Lake Superior in 1973 ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

Unless you’re someone with a deep (pun intended) fascination with the world’s bodies of water, it might be a challenge to fathom just how far down they can go. And, as we all remember learning as ...

The Great Lakes area a series of five interconnected freshwater lakes that span Canada and the United States. And two of those lakes border New York. The five lakes - Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake ...

(AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 ...

You can fish on the Great Lakes, go boating, swim, play some water sports and maybe see a lake tsunami, all the while enjoying the spectacular views they provide. But how deep is each one? You’d have ...