"When the Edmund Fitzgerald launched in 1958, it was the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes, just one foot below the maximum allowed length of 730."
"The exact mechanics of the sinking —to this day— are unknown and widely disputed."
"Archaeologists have shown, for example, that indigenous populations around the Great Lakes mined and used the copper near modern-day Lake Superior for over six thousand years."
"My girl actually planned a trip to the Great Lakes."
"Expect the worst of winter somewhere over the Great Lakes... very stormy weather, very snowy weather here."
"Most famous, the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Titanic of the Great Lakes."
"...the Great Lakes are a world of their own..."
"...the enormous pressures placed on the captains of the Great Lakes to carry as much cargo as possible up until the very end of the season would not end after the devastation of 1913."
"The only thing I know about Michigan is the Great Lakes are there, and it's cold. A lot."
"Michigan sits in the upper Midwest and has a shoreline with four of the five Great Lakes."
"To date, authorities disagree on the specific factors which contributed to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and to this day, the true cause of the freighter’s capsizal remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Great Lakes."
"For centuries, North America’s five Great Lakes have served as the setting for a host of legends, folktales, and nautical mysteries."
"Of all the strange stories and legends surrounding the Great Lakes, perhaps the most chilling are those pertaining to the host of ships and sailors that the Lakes have swallowed over the years."
"there are an estimated 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes according to the Wisconsin Historical Society"
"I'm not trying to be that deep underwater, I'm not trying to get drowned by some salty spirit who died in one of the Great Lakes, and I'm certainly not trying to get eaten by sharks."
"The Great Lakes as a whole really surprised me, how beautiful they were, all the blue water, just all the variety of views."
"The Great Lakes of North America are the home of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world."
"The Great Lakes were the most treacherous during late November."
"That November, I mean, that's the big date with big storms on the Great Lakes."
"There's more diversity of large mammals in the Great Lakes watershed, than there are anywhere in Eastern North America."
"The Great Lakes are world-class smallmouth fishery."
"It's called a Great Lake for a reason."
"In a rapidly growing world afflicted by climate change, inadequate infrastructure, and political upheaval, the debates will continue over who can tap the Great Lakes."
"Lake Michigan is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world and it's the only Great Lake that is entirely within the United States."
"Michigan is surrounded by water, the state's coastline runs along four of the five Great Lakes."
"The Greater Buffalo and Greater Detroit were nicknamed the Leviathan of the Lakes."
"If you've never been to any of the Great Lakes, they are something special."
"There is nothing more important than the health of the Great Lakes."
"Canada shares four of the five Great Lakes found along the border of the United States of America."
"The Great Lakes are North America's largest source of fresh water."
"Over the next 17 years, she would set records on the Great Lakes."
"The Great Lakes water levels have increased substantially and are now close to record highs."
"The Great Lakes are no joke; they're a big deal."
"Our Great Lakes are geologically very young."
"Look at this fish, you guys, what a beautiful Great Lakes brown trout."
"We have come a long way since the 1970s, and the progress that we have made in restoring these great lakes to their original glory has been immense."
"The Great Lakes Compact was established in order to regulate and protect the water in these watersheds."
"The Great Lakes system holds about 21% of the world's fresh water supply."
"Every time I've been in the Great Lakes, I destroy them on a free rig three five beaver."
"Some of the Great Lakes are more like inland seas."
"Tonight our adventure is taking us back to 1913, the worst storm called 'King of Storms' to hit the Great Lakes."
"This particular storm sank at least one vessel on four of the five Great Lakes."
"Preventing carp population is the only way to protect the Great Lakes."
"I've been on the Great Lakes for, well, gosh, 35 years."
"The Great Lakes and their connected waterways cover more than 94,000 square miles and make up the world's largest freshwater system."
"The success around the Great Lakes established a fundamental American compulsion—the movement to the open west."
"These five interconnected inland seas contain 20% of the world's surface freshwater and 95% of the nation's."
"These are the Great Lakes, and 20% of all the necessary sustenance we humans need to live is located right here."
"Ships literally climb a mountain, the Niagara Escarpment, as they ascend 99 meters from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie."
"Adventure on the high seas, little do we appreciate the significance of the activity that takes place along the Great Lakes."
"In the first weeks of December 1927, a devastating winter storm was bearing down on the Great Lakes of America."
"We just followed the Great Lakes all the way up into Maine."
"The lake is more than 5,000 feet deep and there's more water in it than all the five Great Lakes combined."
"When you think of the Great Lakes and you think of a ship, that's what you think of."
"The great lakes were formed during this period."
"The Great Lakes system, with a combined surface area of 244,100 square kilometers, holds about 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water."