Diving the Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve - Eber Ward Maitland Newell Eddy William Young
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Great Lakes Diving the Straits of Mackinac Shipwrecks
The Straits of Mackinac are a series of narrow waterways in the U.S. state of Michigan, between Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas. The main strait flows under the Mackinac Bridge and connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The main strait is three point five miles (5.6 km) wide and has an maximum depth of 295 feet (90 m). Hydrologically, the two connected lakes can be considered one, which is called Lake Michigan–Huron. Historically, the region around the Straits was known by the native Odawa people as Michilimackinac. The Straits of Mackinac is "whipsawed by currents unlike anywhere else in the Great Lakes."