Hello! I’ve been always into the Great Lakes shipping ever since I was a kid. I’ve recently started thinking about switching jobs and I have briefly thought about this as it’s also interests me. Currently I’m in the US Army by the end of my current contract I’ll have 10 years and a combat deployment to iraq . I know I have no experience with the water other than having owned and worked on engines on pleasure craft before the military as a teen. What would the benefits be and is there anything I can do to “prepare myself” if I find myself heading this way?

Hello r/GreatLakesShipping!

I've been curious about the largest passenger vessels by passenger capacity that spend their entire season navigating the Great Lakes. So far, here are a few big ones I know of and would love to get more insights and add to this list in no particular order. Here's what I have:

1. SS Badger: The historic car ferry lake Michigan 620 passengers , https://www.ssbadger.com/
2. Ranger III: going to Isle Royale. Surprisingly low capacity for size 128 passengers https://www.nps.gov/isro/planyourvisit/ranger-iii-info.htm
3. Odyssey II: Dinner boat in Chicago 800 passengers https://navypier.org/cruises-and-tours/our-cruise-partners/odyssey-lake-michigan/
4. Detroit Princess: Dinner boat in Detroit 1500 passengers www.detroitprincess.com
5. Northern Spirit Toronto dinner boat 560 passengers Northern Spirit
6. Michigan Princess Dinner boat in Lansing MI www.michiganprincess.com
7. Lake Express Lake Michigan Ferry 250 passengers https://www.lake-express.com/
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Hi all my wife loves to watch ships and we took a vacation to Duluth to do this last fall. We stayed at the pier b. Nice place. We are looking for other places to travel to that have hotels with a good quanity of passing ship traffic. Thanks

Is this a good company to work for? I was applying for Great Lakes positions and this one had come up

Hey everyone,

In the 90's, photography was my dad's major hobby. In particular, boat pics. We have a cabin on Drummond Island and he'd spend hours setting up for a shot with his Nikon - I've attached the only shot I have, The Ryerson, as a boat tax. Approximately half the beanie babies I own were purchased as bribes so dad could spend an afternoon at the Soo because "the Speer and the Gott were going through at the same time!"

He's older now, he has less money, his equipment is no longer state of the art, and he's fallen out of the hobby. But I think he'd friggin love to take drone photos like the ones I see here.

I don't know anything about drones. Are drones with reasonably nice cameras affordable? What's a good "starter" drone? What are the chances that the drone will fly out over the St Mary's, lose signal, and plunge into the lake?

I'd love any and all advice. Thanks so much!

Hi all,

Doing research on great lakes ships that completely turned turtle. I know the charles s price is the one that always comes to mind for everyone. I've heard some news sources that the argus did and dragged on the bottom similair to the price for a while but that is sort of disproven due to the fact that the Argus was the only ship that was witnessed to sink during the storm of 1913 where it was suspended between two waves and then broke apart. I wouldn't consider the Eastland to turn turtle because it just laid on its side, not completely upside down. Where there any otheres that completely flipped? Preferably steam ships in the very early 1900s to the present, preferably not schooners either. Doesn't matter if it flipped at dock like the Eastland or in a storm like the price, as long as it completely flipped