If you love traveling to any of the Great Lakes during the summer, then there is another activity you could partake in other than swimming, boating or fishing: Searching for shipwrecks.Recommended Videos
Citing findings from the University of Buffalo, the article said there is more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the bottom of the five Great Lakes, which have been sunk since the 1600s by vicious storms, accidents or in wars.1. Climate change Winters in recent years have been warmer than usual, and this past winter was even more so in the Great Lakes region. The higher temperaturesThe warmth has had negative environmental impacts, but has been somewhat helpful for locating shipwrecks due to lower lake levels and higher rates of erosion on sandy shores that have destroyed coastlines.Freighters coming from Europe through the Great Lakes have introduced species such as invasive zebra and quagga mussels.
People simply are fascinated by shipwrecks. In Paradise, Michigan, located in the state’s Upper Peninsula along Lake Superior,The article went on to mention that this “golden age” of shipwreck searching might only last roughly 30 years. Because climate change is affecting ice levels, more light and zebra mussels are filtering their way down to the wrecks, causing them to erode and essentially vanish.
No doubt, that explains why so many are trying to locate shipwrecks, and the next couple of decades will likely feature more people trying to do so than ever before in history.