Century-old shipwrecks discovered in Lake Superior, solving mysteries of the past.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has found two of three ships that sank in a violent storm on Lake Superior in 1914, leaving 28 dead. The wrecks offer a window to the past and provide peace to families of the mariners and passengers who vanished. The society has been mapping more than 2,500 miles of Lake Superior with Marine Sonic Technology using side-scan sonar. The ships were part of the Hines Lumber Co., one of the largest timber enterprises at the time, and the finds are significant historic discoveries in American history.