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Straits of Mackinac

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Sights of the Straits: The Mackinac Bridge

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Straits of Mackinac - Spring 1956

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Straits of Mackinac, Mackinac Island MI 2019

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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."