Vacationing on Lake Superior in the Summer
April 25, 2009
Lake Superior
If you are into pristine landscapes, untouched land and nature, then you will surely love Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Located along the northern boundary of the U.P., as it is affectionately called, is Lake Superior. Lake Superior is one of the five Great Lakes. Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and is the world’s fourth-largest freshwater lake by volume.
According to legend, Lake Superior never gives up her dead. This is because of the unusually low temperature of the water, estimated at under 36 °F (2 °C) on average around 1970. Normally bacteria feeding on a sunken decaying body will generate gas inside the body, causing it to float to the surface after a few days. The water in Lake Superior is cold enough year-round to inhibit bacterial growth, and bodies tend to sink and never surface. This is alluded to in Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The Edmund Fitzgerald’s 29 crew members all perished. Edmund Fitzgerald adventurer Joe MacInnis reported that in July of 1994, explorer Frederick Shannon’s Expedition 94 to the Fitzgerald discovered and filmed a man’s body near the port side of her pilothouse, not far from the open door, “fully clothed, wearing an orange life jacket, and lying face down in the sediment.”[18] No crew members were ever recovered. The Fitzgerald got swallowed up so intensely by Lake Superior, that the 729-foot (222 m) ship split in half. Its two pieces are sitting approximately 170 feet (52 m) apart in a depth of 550 feet (170 m).
Freighter on Lake Superior from a Distance
Regardless of the temperature of Lake Superior, the beauty is breathtaking.
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