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1. The flight to Marquette on the south shore of Lake Superior made at least three stops in Green Bay, Hancock, and Iron Mountain
2. On 10 November 1975 at around 7:15 PM, the bulk cargo vessel SS Edmund Fitzgerald fully loaded with taconite pellets sunk in eastern Lake Superior during one of the most violent winter storms in Great Lakes history
3. Paquette was on Lake Superior on the SS Wilfred Sykes trailing behind the Edmund Fitzgerald during the “storm of the century
4. , Lake Superior claimed the 180-foot USCGC Mesquite
5. The buoy tender went aground off Michigan"s Keweenaw Point in the turbulent, icy waters of Lake Superior while servicing a navigational aid, and eventually sank
6. In 1994 the Coast Guard had to use nine ice breaking vessels in the bad areas of Lake Superior (White Fish Bay) and the Lake Huron-Michigan connection at the Mackinac Strait
7. Coast Guard stations in Michigan along the Upper Peninsula support the Lake Superior area with their traditional responsibilities
8. Lake Superior search and rescue stations are located in the Minnesota ports of Duluth and Grand Marais; Station Portage in Dollar Bay, Michigan; and Bayfield, Wisconsin near the Apostle Islands, north of Ashland (“The United States Coast Guard in the Northland,” Marine Inspection Office Duluth, and The Coast Guard Historian"s Office, 12/29/2000)
9. 1975 (November 10) The cargo carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior
10. The 47-foot MLB and the 25-foot SAFE boat were used as SAR boats in Lake Superior off the Wisconsin Point Lighthouse on 14 July, 2005
11. A rescue official told news reporters that the cold Lake Superior water is never safe, and life vests should always be used by swimmers and boaters (Hamilton, “Boy Missing…,” 2005)
12. The 21-mile drop in elevation between Lake Superior and Lake Huron allows the passage of huge Lake carriers though the system of locks, dams and canals built since 1855
13. Chicago was second (27 million) and Detroit (18 million) third (“Lake Superior,” 2003)
14. In her exquisite book, Lake Superior (1944), Grace Lee Nute traced the economic histories of the Lake Superior Wisconsin ports of Superior, Ashland, and Bayfield; and the Minnesota ports of Duluth, Grand Marais, and Two Harbors
15. Revenue Cutter Service, Lighthouse Service, and Coast Guard carried out their missions in these port areas, and the adjacent waters of Chequamegon Bay and Lake Superior
16. Equally significant in Lake Superior history since the middle of the 19th century were the North Shore Split Rock and Two Harbors lighthouses, which furnished light and fog-horn signals to warn mariners of rocks and shore lines (Nute, p
17. Bayfield was ordered by the British Admiralty to survey Lake Superior
18. The Lake Superior city of Bayfield (Wisconsin) is named after him (Nute, 1947, pp
19. Stannard Rock Lighthouse was constructed 23 miles off the Michigan shore of Lake Superior
20. The 269-foot Westwind kept aids to navigation operational, escorted oil tankers and coal carriers, and carried out icebreaking missions on Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior
21. Whitefish Bay, at the southeastern end of Lake Superior, was invariably a congested area because the shallow bay allowed rapid ice formations that grew into ice jams which traveled unimpeded over the vast East-West-bearing lake at the head of the prevailing westerly winds
22. Lake Huron and Lake Superior were 98% covered, and southern Lake Michigan ice conditions required rare icebreaking missions in the Chicago port region
23. Lake Superior shipping closed on 15 January with the closing of the Soo Locks (“Guard Icebreakers See Heavy Action,”
24. The lighted buoys were among the total of 358 ATN in the harbor and on Lake Superior
25. The 350-mile long, 160-mile wide Lake Superior challenged the Woodrush and subsequent cutters with its cold and stormy waters
26. In that year VHF-FM radio systems allowed reliable communications to all Western Lake Superior stations with transmission sites in Duluth, Bayfield, and Hancock (Michigan)
27. Senior Chief Petty Officer Marvin Gebers informed the local media that the Coast Guard would increase its recreational boating safety inspections and law enforcement boardings on Lake Superior and in the Duluth-Superior port region in the summer of 1991
28. Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, and the St
29. Papp said Coast Guard helicopters are supplemented by occasional surveillance flights by C-130 Coast Guard aircraft armed with high technology sensors, and by Canadian military aircraft out of the Ontario air station, but he revealed there was inadequate air coverage “at the western edge of Lake Superior
30. The USCG Marine Safety Office in Duluth has carried out historic multi-mission duties on western Lake Superior
31. USCG Station Bayfield is located north of Ashland in Lake Superior
32. USCG Station Bayfield, located ten miles north of Washburn (Wisconsin), responded to 174 SAR calls in 1995, doubling the previous year’s tally, and surpassing the annual call totals of the larger Lake Superior Coast Guard stations of Marquette (18) and Duluth (89)
33. Marie, described how the Coast Guard planned to use heavy cables, winches and a barge to move the Mesquite several hundred yards out into Lake Superior and sink it in 100 feet of water
34. Lake Superior was almost ice-free due to one of the warmest winters in 30 years
35. “One Hundred Years of Rescues: The Coast Guard on Lake Superior
36. water would flow south through existing rivers into Lake Superior
37. The Science advisor pointed to two locations north of Lake Superior
38. Historically, the flow rates into Lake Superior
39. Every November Father Ingalls, who wed us, held a service in memory of the twenty-nine crewmembers who went down in Lake Superior on the Edmund Fitzgerald, ending with ringing the heavy brotherhood bell twenty-nine times
40. Eventually Kai attended Lake Superior State University just across the International Bridge in Michigan majoring in math and computer science
41. Proceeding as it does from the north and northwest of lake Superior, and crossing the great expanse of water in this direction, it rushes down these great lakes to the south end of lake Michigan in latitude about 41° north, diverges from that point, and spreads over the immense regions lying to the south, where the air is more rarefied by reason of its warmer climate
