How Deep are the Great Lakes?

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @spike_-pw9iz
    @spike_-pw9iz 5 месяцев назад +16455

    Petition to put the eifel tower in lake michigan

  • @beckeredward14
    @beckeredward14 6 месяцев назад +6685

    The shallowness of Lake Erie is what makes it so dangerous. Storms whip up quickly and are often deadly. Lake Erie is littered with shipwrecks.

    • @jonsmith1462
      @jonsmith1462 5 месяцев назад

      Lake Michigan claims more drowning victims. But they are all dangerous.

    • @saladaddict
      @saladaddict 5 месяцев назад +494

      And the warmest to swim in😂

    • @StanleyHeinzelman
      @StanleyHeinzelman 5 месяцев назад +132

      And Walleye !!!!

    • @RobertWhite-pz9wx
      @RobertWhite-pz9wx 5 месяцев назад +256

      Why would shallow cause that?

    • @yunekoVT
      @yunekoVT 5 месяцев назад +63

      @@RobertWhite-pz9wx tell me you know nothing about boats without telling me you know nothing about boats

  • @EvilSt0ner
    @EvilSt0ner 6 месяцев назад +28684

    If you didn't know any better and stood on the shore of lake superior you would think it was an ocean.

    • @misterjustice995
      @misterjustice995 6 месяцев назад +2640

      That’s not some Lake Superior special lol Lake Michigan is the same and I’m sure there’s other lakes where you can’t see the opposite shore

    • @armorers_wrench
      @armorers_wrench 6 месяцев назад +1407

      Lake Michigan looks like an ocean too.

    • @armorers_wrench
      @armorers_wrench 6 месяцев назад +523

      Google Great Bear Lake way up in northern Canada. There are a few of these massive lakes all over the world.

    • @CHMichael
      @CHMichael 6 месяцев назад +104

      As soon as you can't see the other side ( no trace)

    • @TheHistroy
      @TheHistroy 6 месяцев назад +173

      Lake huron looks like the ocean too lol

  • @absoliutenuds
    @absoliutenuds 4 месяца назад +276

    I almost drowned in lake Erie on Saturday. No matter what you do, wear your life vest when you're on the water or have it within reach. Things can change in a split of a second

    • @sarahrowe9661
      @sarahrowe9661 4 месяца назад +24

      Glad you are alive. Hope you are well.

    • @Hyderagean
      @Hyderagean 4 месяца назад +15

      Glad you're safe! ❤

    • @rothed16
      @rothed16 4 месяца назад +10

      Glad you're able to post this. Stay safe out there

    • @pullingthestrings5233
      @pullingthestrings5233 3 месяца назад +7

      😊 yay you made it. Be careful out there

    • @itsjustme7487
      @itsjustme7487 2 месяца назад +5

      @@absoliutenuds Keep safe. Too many people don't respect the Great Lakes.

  • @bigisrick
    @bigisrick 6 месяцев назад +13465

    You can fit all 4 Great Lakes plus 2 additional lake Eries inside of Lake Superior
    Volume guys... not surface area.

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 6 месяцев назад +164

      And yet Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay-Green Bay is bigger in surface area
      MHGB : 117 300 km² / 45 300 sq mi
      Superior : 82 100 km² / 31 700 sq mi

    • @jsmith42690
      @jsmith42690 6 месяцев назад +329

      ​@@geoffroi-le-Hook, exactly. People forget that two lakes are actually one lake separated by an arbitrary line.

    • @sensez513
      @sensez513 5 месяцев назад +39

      By volume? Cause i just checked the map and the surface area isnt telling that

    • @ElzMCgamer
      @ElzMCgamer 5 месяцев назад +13

      @@jsmith42690Mackinac Bridge?

    • @sirich7751
      @sirich7751 5 месяцев назад +15

      Volume or surface area? I assume volume

  • @caodesignworks2407
    @caodesignworks2407 6 месяцев назад +2808

    Another fun fact is that the lakes get rough and they get rough fast. There are over 6,000 ship wrecks on the great lakes and over 30,000 people have lost their lives to them

    • @Mental_Illboy
      @Mental_Illboy 5 месяцев назад +64

      I would like to thank them for their service.

    • @socom2173
      @socom2173 5 месяцев назад +48

      Definitely haunted

    • @fraskf6765
      @fraskf6765 5 месяцев назад +58

      ​@@Mental_Illboyvery fitting name

    • @Mental_Illboy
      @Mental_Illboy 5 месяцев назад +61

      @@fraskf6765 Thank you sir. They call me like this in school when they bully me because I bought flowers for my hot teacher because I'm in love with her.

    • @DEPORTER_SUPPORTER
      @DEPORTER_SUPPORTER 5 месяцев назад +15

      They also have tidal effects.

  • @Astrodexterous
    @Astrodexterous 5 месяцев назад +4063

    For all the non-Americans
    Erie - 64m
    Huron - 228m
    Ontario - 245m
    Michigan - 281m
    Superior - 406m

    • @laughingoutloud5742
      @laughingoutloud5742 5 месяцев назад +200

      😂 Cheers

    • @witeshrt
      @witeshrt 5 месяцев назад +687

      How do you convert that back to number of bald eagles carrying a flagpole though?

    • @BJtheBassist
      @BJtheBassist 5 месяцев назад +115

      Witchcraft

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад +67

      Wish we would use one. Meaning America use metric system but they tried to switch a few times. Never worked

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 5 месяцев назад +29

      When do you non-Americans expect your first smart phones?
      If you are unfamiliar with the conversions, it can be an invaluable tool...

  • @Coton_Candy
    @Coton_Candy 4 месяца назад +883

    As someone who lives next to Lake Erie, even though it’s the smallest and shallowest it still looks like and feels like the ocean minus the salt. It has beautiful beaches and even massive waves from time to time. It’s very beautiful and it’s like a mini freshwater ocean

    • @johannfrederichk3473
      @johannfrederichk3473 4 месяца назад +23

      Im from Buffalo. Hello fellow Lake Erie-er.

    • @MikeV8652
      @MikeV8652 4 месяца назад +16

      Its level is more influenced by the effects of wind than the deeper lakes; like blowing across a saucer of water.

    • @johannfrederichk3473
      @johannfrederichk3473 4 месяца назад +3

      @@MikeV8652 Incredibly good point

    • @almightyswizz
      @almightyswizz 4 месяца назад +9

      Exactly these depictions make them seem much more small and way more narrow in particular… I can’t see any horizon directly across from navy pier

    • @tjkhan4541
      @tjkhan4541 3 месяца назад

      I have heard Erie is pretty nasty due to chemical dumping?

  • @eliasbsalas
    @eliasbsalas 6 месяцев назад +7401

    lake erie has a great personality

    • @bigisrick
      @bigisrick 5 месяцев назад +71

      @@eliasbsalas Really funny

    • @TheWabbit
      @TheWabbit 5 месяцев назад +169

      And great Walleye/perch fishing, but when she gets mad, watch out!

    • @jamessveinsson6006
      @jamessveinsson6006 5 месяцев назад +74

      I was fishing for walleye on Lake Erie a few years before the pandemic I couldn’t believe the surface waves got so high on there. The captain told us to hang on, and we made it to shore safely, but man it was scary because the winds went right through Erie I forgot what it’s called what kind of phenomenon it’s called but it was weird.

    • @jamessveinsson6006
      @jamessveinsson6006 5 месяцев назад +29

      @@TheWabbit I was fishing for walleye a couple years before the pandemic near Sandusky when the captain told us were headed back to shore because the waves he knew by instinct when she was gonna get mad, I give all the props to the captain when we got back to, you should’ve seen the size of those waves

    • @lonnyyoung4285
      @lonnyyoung4285 5 месяцев назад +40

      @jamessveinsson6006 Buffalo gets the worst of it when the winds blow strong out of the west. The level of the lake can rise several feet in some cases. It is called a "seiche."

  • @gabriellebenard5254
    @gabriellebenard5254 6 месяцев назад +1927

    i do search and rescue i can't tell you the amount of people i have to rescue on these lakes. People ear lake and think they can take their small fishing boats on this. Yall respect the great lakes they are dangerous and makes big ass waves

    • @arfriedman4577
      @arfriedman4577 5 месяцев назад +67

      Thank you for service to help.

    • @DEPORTER_SUPPORTER
      @DEPORTER_SUPPORTER 5 месяцев назад +44

      Is it true these large inland lakes have tidal effects?

    • @gabriellebenard5254
      @gabriellebenard5254 5 месяцев назад +111

      @@DEPORTER_SUPPORTER it is very true.

    • @andrewlandry625
      @andrewlandry625 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@gabriellebenard5254
      No they don’t have tidal effects … the water level remains the same throughout the day.

    • @gabriellebenard5254
      @gabriellebenard5254 5 месяцев назад +68

      @andrewlandry625 there's a slight difference. You do know they used to be sea right?

  • @carl_royce_canti
    @carl_royce_canti 5 месяцев назад +1299

    For some reason, I already expected a football field to appear as a unit of measurement.

    • @planetxtraa
      @planetxtraa 4 месяца назад +10

      lmao

    • @Garrett12362
      @Garrett12362 4 месяца назад +34

      Well it's a relatable reference to 100 meters

    • @reillyd.4753
      @reillyd.4753 4 месяца назад +66

      The lack of school buses surprised me

    • @Carlisios
      @Carlisios 4 месяца назад +11

      I couldnt imagine how deep they are without using whales as the unit of measurement

    • @bobwoods1302
      @bobwoods1302 4 месяца назад +9

      I`m disappointed Rhode Island wasn't mentioned.

  • @goatboy150
    @goatboy150 3 месяца назад +42

    Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come slashin'.

    • @Throckmorton_the_great
      @Throckmorton_the_great 2 месяца назад +7

      When suppertime came the old cook came on deck and said "fellas it's too rough to feed ya"

    • @DoveLady
      @DoveLady Месяц назад +2

      neither does michigan. sadly every summer its normal to hear of rip tides taking poor souls out to its depths. me, im not going in any water deeper than my ankles and i know how to swim.

    • @peterhumphrys
      @peterhumphrys 7 дней назад +2

      From the Chippewas on down the legend lives on of the lake they call Gitchigumi

    • @lethalus3494
      @lethalus3494 5 дней назад

      Gordon Lightfoot!

  • @GettinJiggyWithGenghis
    @GettinJiggyWithGenghis 4 месяца назад +1887

    I've just seen a Great Lake for the first time, Lake Erie. It's monumental, you cannot see the other side from the coast, huge lake, the largest I'd ever seen, to know it's also the shallowest and smallest Great Lake really puts into perspective the scales we're talking about

    • @YodasTinyLightsaber
      @YodasTinyLightsaber 4 месяца назад +198

      The Great Lakes are really inland freshwater seas. Geography is really cool.

    • @EthanDavis.w
      @EthanDavis.w 4 месяца назад +85

      I live by the shore of Lake Superior. It is the closest you'll get to the feeling of an ocean coast.

    • @everythingpizzaandknuckles6268
      @everythingpizzaandknuckles6268 4 месяца назад +115

      You have Donald Trump's speaking patterns

    • @arnettthayer5314
      @arnettthayer5314 4 месяца назад +15

      @@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268 Gillis would be proud haha

    • @yepperino8059
      @yepperino8059 4 месяца назад +14

      I grew up a few blocks from lake erie and it is huge. It once got on fire due to pollution. 😢

  • @RENEGADEJon19
    @RENEGADEJon19 5 месяцев назад +1058

    Fun fact: there's an old iron ore mine in Tower, MN that they've turned into a historic site that you can go tour. They'll take you to the deepest level mined, which is 2,341 feet down.

    • @darklands14
      @darklands14 5 месяцев назад +30

      The Soudan Mine--been there!

    • @danadams6477
      @danadams6477 5 месяцев назад +21

      Deepest in America, North America, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, or in the world?

    • @Alex-mp8dp
      @Alex-mp8dp 5 месяцев назад

      @@danadams6477In that particular mine, I would presume.

    • @delbomb3131
      @delbomb3131 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@danadams6477they'll take you to the deepest part of that mine, not that it's the deepest anything

    • @richardcranium3579
      @richardcranium3579 5 месяцев назад +10

      They won’t take me

  • @sirhalo2
    @sirhalo2 5 месяцев назад +360

    I snorkel in Lake Superior. It's like being in an aquatic desert unseen by man. The water is caribbean clear, rock formations are amazing, the caves are unique to explore, and the northern pike are massive! Very thrilling buy also terrifying adrenaline rush.

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад +9

      Caves are melted buildings. Mountains are melted buildings. The more you look. You see it.

    • @weaponizedmath4369
      @weaponizedmath4369 4 месяца назад +5

      I can't seem to get passed my Naval in superior Ita always Colder very cold

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 4 месяца назад +29

      @@Maaaattologyyyy and pigeons are state cameras the more you look, the more you see

    • @resistivpeach
      @resistivpeach 4 месяца назад

      @@blanco7726a sweet a schizo meltdown

    • @thomaswigglesworth8136
      @thomaswigglesworth8136 4 месяца назад +4

      @@Maaaattologyyyythe dome bro, look up videos of the sunlight refracting. I wonder how they do the planes 🤔

  • @geography_joe
    @geography_joe 4 месяца назад +39

    I grew up in Cleveland and you just don’t realize how special the great lakes are until you visit other places. You can’t see the other side!

    • @pullingthestrings5233
      @pullingthestrings5233 3 месяца назад

      So the earth is flat?

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 2 месяца назад

      Lake Erie is a pond compared to Lake Michigan

    • @Doorknob252
      @Doorknob252 2 месяца назад

      @@pullingthestrings5233how is that remotely related to anything he said

  • @kamron_thurmond
    @kamron_thurmond 5 месяцев назад +403

    I just recently saw two of the Great lakes in person for myself and it's pretty wild looking out over them and they're like just endless water.

    • @Paradox_Incognito
      @Paradox_Incognito 5 месяцев назад +23

      Freshwater oceans indeed!

    • @tinycockjock1967
      @tinycockjock1967 4 месяца назад +6

      Them ain’t lakes at all them’s seas

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 4 месяца назад +1

      Lake superior is 1337ft deep? How do I know? Because it's *superior.* 😊

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@tinycockjock1967 yep, bigger than some o' dem actual "seas" 😮 😉

    • @dopey9410
      @dopey9410 4 месяца назад +5

      I’m on Lake Erie and whenever distant family comes over I get reminded of how unusual it is even tho it’s normal for me

  • @ChuckHolland-i4b
    @ChuckHolland-i4b 5 месяцев назад +276

    I live in the Thumb of Michigan on Lake Huron. We have the most beautiful western view sunsets and eastern view sunrises over the lake. Just spectacular.

    • @JohnDoe-od7ye
      @JohnDoe-od7ye 5 месяцев назад +4

      That’s pretty cool though I’m not waking up for sunsets. I’ll take your word for it. 🤣

    • @StuStevens-rn7rb
      @StuStevens-rn7rb 5 месяцев назад +5

      So to your West is WI where I am inland about 25 miles and 35 miles NW of Green Bay. 👍😎

    • @ChuckHolland-i4b
      @ChuckHolland-i4b 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@StuStevens-rn7rb That's way over past Lake Michigan. I'm on the east side of Michigan on Lake Huron.

    • @meghansullivan6812
      @meghansullivan6812 5 месяцев назад

      Ugh wow💓

    • @Thatrandomdude1315
      @Thatrandomdude1315 5 месяцев назад +2

      Always love the view when passing over the Blue Water Bridge. It’s quite nice!

  • @TheSoloFrenzy
    @TheSoloFrenzy 5 месяцев назад +82

    i’m from Duluth, MN, a beautiful city on the shores of Lake Superior. everyone here recognizes and respects the power of the lake. it’s gorgeous and dangerous and massive

    • @johannfrederichk3473
      @johannfrederichk3473 4 месяца назад

      Lake Erie is the most dangerous, right? Our Lakes are the best, am I right?

    • @lander90
      @lander90 4 месяца назад +1

      My only complaint is tourist season, too many people imo. The lakes are good for keeping the temps regulated

    • @johannfrederichk3473
      @johannfrederichk3473 3 месяца назад +1

      @@lander90 yeah, a bittersweet truth about buffalo new york. its a poor city. when people visit niagara falls, they are usually on the canadian side. leaves us free of tourists. but... it leaves us free of tourists. no money from them. and people who go through buffalo complain about it (they probably drive through the homeless streets). that worsens its reputation.

    • @Ionlyseerainbowss
      @Ionlyseerainbowss 3 месяца назад +2

      I’m from Mankato, love Duluth

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 2 месяца назад +1

      I've seen St John Bay is tent city in the winter

  • @chrislofterplodzzz
    @chrislofterplodzzz 2 месяца назад +3

    Lake Superior Facts!!!
    Length- 350 miles
    Width- 150 miles
    Water surface area- 31,700 squared miles
    Max depth- 1,333ft
    Avg depth- 483ft
    Volume- 3 quadrillion gallons
    Avg water temp- 40°F
    Shoreline length- 2,726 miles

  • @josephmorphew397
    @josephmorphew397 5 месяцев назад +529

    What can I say, but Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion.

    • @nw4042
      @nw4042 5 месяцев назад +67

      Farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake Erie can send her.

    • @jamessveinsson6006
      @jamessveinsson6006 5 месяцев назад +41

      The islands and the bays are for Sportman

    • @earthlingjohn
      @earthlingjohn 5 месяцев назад +52

      The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

    • @yasbutthicc5952
      @yasbutthicc5952 5 месяцев назад +44

      ​@@earthlingjohnWhen the gales of November come early

    • @johngrono
      @johngrono 5 месяцев назад +19

      well done fellas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @elizam9652
    @elizam9652 6 месяцев назад +343

    Hence why ships stay in lake superior. Its so cold that bodies don't rot and ships do not decompose

    • @Epoch11
      @Epoch11 6 месяцев назад +9

      I never knew that

    • @TillerG7
      @TillerG7 6 месяцев назад +107

      @@Epoch11look up the images of the Kamloops wreck. She went down in 1927 on Lake Superior. The engineer who’s known as “Ol’ Whitey” is still in the engine room and you can dive next to him. He’s decomposed to a point but because that water is so cold, he’ll never fully go away. Because of the water a diver will disperse, Ol’ Whitey will follow you if you dive next to him in the wreck.

    • @RockOn78
      @RockOn78 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@TillerG7thx for sharing

    • @clonetrooper8669
      @clonetrooper8669 5 месяцев назад +67

      @@TillerG7 I bet that’s made a couple wetsuits a little warmer 😂

    • @chooch9816
      @chooch9816 5 месяцев назад +40

      Living on the northern part of Superior, I will always go swim on an inland lake. Superior is not swimming friendly. As a guy, you will suffer from a severe case of “rumple-foreskin” or “ASD”, better known as “Acute shrinky dink”….🤪

  • @markjames8664
    @markjames8664 5 месяцев назад +30

    An oddity is that Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in NY, has a maximum depth of 618 feet even though it is much smaller than Erie. The Navy tests sub equipment in Seneca because of the depth.

  • @duke7052
    @duke7052 4 месяца назад +6

    I had family visit from England a few years back. They landed in Toronto and when they saw lake Ontario they were shocked that it was just a lake. They said it looked like the ocean.

  • @22buran
    @22buran 5 месяцев назад +225

    I like how the fall off in the depth is so abrupt. It gets deeper a little and then just straight down like damn

    • @jonc3519
      @jonc3519 4 месяца назад +7

      thats what i'm saying

    • @orirune3079
      @orirune3079 4 месяца назад +66

      Yes but bear in mind that these are highly exaggerated. Like take the Lake Michigan diagram - it's 900 feet deep but something like 50 miles wide. That means its depth isn't even 1% its width. An accurate cross-section would just look like a straight line that gets a little thicker in the middle.

    • @steviemac2681
      @steviemac2681 4 месяца назад +30

      if that was the real shape, these lakes would only be like 300 foot across. Those pictures are just showing the depth.

    • @orirune3079
      @orirune3079 4 месяца назад +8

      @@steviemac2681 or it would be like 100 miles deep

    • @sashamoore9691
      @sashamoore9691 4 месяца назад +2

      The ocean in Egypt has a cliff like ocean floor where sharks regularly attack humans

  • @bicyclist2
    @bicyclist2 5 месяцев назад +83

    I used to live on lake Michigan. Its Big! It deserves the reputation it gets. Thanks.

  • @SoulSoundMuisc
    @SoulSoundMuisc 6 месяцев назад +252

    Other fun fact: All of us laymen call them The Great Lakes. In the scientific community, they are known as the North American Inland Sea.
    They're called that because they generate their own weather patterns, iirc.

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 5 месяцев назад +17

      Yup, Cleveland is known for the "Lake effect" on it's football stadium.

    • @krispoli22
      @krispoli22 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yet no tides??

    • @danadams6477
      @danadams6477 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@krispoli22Interesting point 🤔?

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@krispoli22 It's not affected by the ocean as much since the Lakes drain into the Atlantic

    • @balcorn9211
      @balcorn9211 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@krispoli22 The Mediterranean Sea is barely tidal.

  • @Balrog-tf3bg
    @Balrog-tf3bg 4 месяца назад +4

    It’s called Lake Superior for a reason. What a treat to grow up in MN and visit Duluth and the north shore

  • @comedicgenius353
    @comedicgenius353 4 месяца назад +43

    I remember my first time flying over the Great Lakes and I thought we were going over an ocean it lasted for so long and went as far as the eye could see in every direction.

  • @Jophlo78
    @Jophlo78 5 месяцев назад +335

    I cannot believe that he’s proposing to put the Eiffel Tower in Lake Michigan, I’m reporting this to the DEC.

    • @chudleyflusher7132
      @chudleyflusher7132 5 месяцев назад +7

      I’m with you!! What an outrageous idea!!👍😹

    • @MarcillaSmith
      @MarcillaSmith 5 месяцев назад +9

      He claims you can "safely" put the Golden Gate Bridge in. Reported!

    • @thatnerd1
      @thatnerd1 5 месяцев назад +4

      Don't forget that he also proposed putting the Renaissance Center in Lake Huron!

    • @Jophlo78
      @Jophlo78 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@MarcillaSmith right and no pun intended, but that’s where he crosses the line!

    • @Jophlo78
      @Jophlo78 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@thatnerd1 if so, I wonder which news outlet will provide total “coverage” !

  • @Trexcombo
    @Trexcombo 5 месяцев назад +93

    Lake Superior feels like an ocean when I went there

    • @yosi.9
      @yosi.9 4 месяца назад

      Try toba lake 😂

    • @Mana_KK
      @Mana_KK 4 месяца назад +5

      Lake Superior is actually big enough to be an inland sea but it is called a lake so it matches the rest.

  • @ArizonaY2K
    @ArizonaY2K 3 месяца назад +2

    Growing up on Lake Michigan it was always like a mini ocean to us! Interesting to see these graphics!!!!!

  • @-.-4
    @-.-4 6 месяцев назад +172

    I live next to Lake Superior. I can see it from my window.😊 Ah, fresh air 😊😊😊😊😊

    • @darbyrennalf733
      @darbyrennalf733 5 месяцев назад +3

      Me too!😊😊😊

    • @briantbmoth6472
      @briantbmoth6472 5 месяцев назад +4

      Do ever swim in it?

    • @1300BlueStar
      @1300BlueStar 5 месяцев назад +34

      @@briantbmoth6472 Nobody really swims in Superior. You jump in and jump right back out shivering and say "Damn that water f'ing cold"

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 5 месяцев назад +3

      I'm always a Lake Ontario kind of guy, Toronto you can't beat, though now I live near London which is between Huron and Erie. Lake Superior is way up north and makes me feel like the cities that are there are frozen wastelands and are quite dumpy, like Sault Ste Marie, ON where my family is from

    • @greeny111
      @greeny111 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@1300BlueStarthere is a race everyone once in a while to swim from bayfield to Madeline island. But beyond that the only time to go swimming is on the beach or from a boat with a life jacket

  • @samiamrg7
    @samiamrg7 5 месяцев назад +100

    Them glaciers did serious work. Then they got lazy on Eerie, lol.

    • @richardcranium3579
      @richardcranium3579 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah and if we didn’t have SUVs those glaciers would still be here….
      Sarcasm

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf 5 месяцев назад

      actually lake superior and michigan were created during a failed continental rifting event approximately a billion years ago. google "midcontinent rift system" or "keweenawan rift"

    • @ericschulze5641
      @ericschulze5641 5 месяцев назад +1

      There's thousands of lakes from the glacier much much smaller throughout north America

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад +1

      Amazing stories

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад +1

      Amazing stories

  • @NYSportsPost
    @NYSportsPost 4 месяца назад +57

    Actually, you could still see the Empire State building because The antenna reaches 1454 feet.

    • @Skarfar90
      @Skarfar90 4 месяца назад +1

      In the grand scheme of things, the great lakes are not that deep.
      Yes, the Empire State building would still be barely visible if place at the bottom of Superior, but if it were placed at the bottom of Lake Hornindal (Norway), it would be fully submerged, by a significant margin too. This lake is 1650 feet deep.

    • @the_undead
      @the_undead 4 месяца назад +10

      ​@@Skarfar90why the great lakes are significant is not because of their depth, It's because of the sheer volume of fresh water stored inside them, If memory surface between all of the great lakes, that is about 20% of the world's surface freshwater all in one source effectively, I'm like Superior has I believe 10% or more of the world's surface freshwater. Also these are not really lakes, these are landlocked oceans that get some extremely aggressive weather when they feel like it, to the point where during the war of 1812 there would be Naval battles going on on these lakes that would abruptly end because the weather was picking up and nobody wanted to test how their ships would fare against these storms

    • @dragons_red
      @dragons_red 4 месяца назад +4

      **queue internet debate about what constitutes the top of a skyscraper**

  • @chocolatte2720
    @chocolatte2720 4 месяца назад +9

    Just went to Lake Michigan, went early in the morning so there weren’t many others, it was so peaceful and chill😌🎶🌊

    • @lucaspilkinton7560
      @lucaspilkinton7560 3 месяца назад +1

      What really interests me is that in Michigan, some areas are so peaceful then in the Detroit area it’s so chaotic all the time

  • @MarchailJones
    @MarchailJones 5 месяцев назад +47

    I live in Chicago and I was not aware it was that deep. I love swimming there and can't wait to get to Michigan to swim there too.

  • @deprivedrevenge2603
    @deprivedrevenge2603 4 месяца назад +7

    Going over the Mackinac bridge is an awe inspiring sight and taking the ferry to Mackinac Island also provides much clarity on the size of the bodies of water surrounding the state I call home.

  • @Jonnyrc18
    @Jonnyrc18 5 месяцев назад +38

    Lake Superior is one of the greatest places I have ever seen with my eyes

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 месяцев назад +7

      Can you see something any other way?

    • @theskyizblue2day431
      @theskyizblue2day431 5 месяцев назад +1

      what is so cool about it? I'm close enough to visit. tell me more!

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 5 месяцев назад +5

      I've seen it, it looks like the other great lakes, I've lived near Lake Ontario my whole life and it's just alright.
      I've seen all of the lakes and they all look the same to me

    • @theskyizblue2day431
      @theskyizblue2day431 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@coastaku1954 so it looks like a bunch of water?

    • @coastaku1954
      @coastaku1954 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@theskyizblue2day431 Yes, but it doesn't taste salty

  • @Setres09
    @Setres09 3 месяца назад +3

    I love how Lake Superior looks like a hand pointing downward lol.
    Also, interesting to me that Lake Huron is the depth of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico!

  • @timmycrw91
    @timmycrw91 5 месяцев назад +55

    I think Gordon Lightfoot probably summed up the Great Lakes fairly well in one of his songs.....😢

    • @FScotsman4472
      @FScotsman4472 5 месяцев назад +14

      "the lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when The gales of November come early"

    • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
      @Starry_Night_Sky7455 5 месяцев назад +3

      I must now discover Gordon Lightfoot songs.

    • @babynautilus
      @babynautilus 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Starry_Night_Sky7455the ballad of the edmund fitzgerald😢

    • @rwboa22
      @rwboa22 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@FScotsman4472 "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, 'bout the great lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'."

    • @babynautilus
      @babynautilus 4 месяца назад

      @@HMSHOOD1920 oops my b idk why i remembered the name as that

  • @velimasuku8808
    @velimasuku8808 4 месяца назад +19

    I remember seeing the Sears Tower in Chicago from across Lake Michigan in Lakeshore, Michigan

    • @citizenGman
      @citizenGman 4 месяца назад +1

      Because the earth is flat...

    • @rcr-zt4of
      @rcr-zt4of 4 месяца назад

      @@citizenGmanBecause you are an idiot…

    • @skylersutton241
      @skylersutton241 4 месяца назад +3

      @@citizenGman8 inches per mile of curvature * 350 miles = 233 ft. Height of the Sears Tower 1454. I hope you're just a troll

    • @citizenGman
      @citizenGman 4 месяца назад

      @@skylersutton241 no, genious, its 8" × miles SQUARED. Try 81,666 feet. Why do you globe defenders have to go so far out of your way, to show how completely ignorant you are? If you know nothing about a subject, you shouldn't argue with someone who does. Anything else you want to know, Einstein?

    • @prinny77
      @prinny77 3 месяца назад

      @@citizenGmanokay it is. What now?

  • @joe.b944
    @joe.b944 4 месяца назад +37

    The sudden drop is terrifying

    • @williansnobre
      @williansnobre 4 месяца назад +3

      As if I needed more reason to not like lakes.
      Murky waters, grabby weeds and sheer drops. So much nope.

    • @joe.b944
      @joe.b944 4 месяца назад +1

      @@williansnobre I’m terrified of deep water myself

    • @Werebud63
      @Werebud63 4 месяца назад +9

      Fortunately, this is not what an actual cross section would look like, its just to help you visualize the depths a bit better. Lake Michigan is 923 feet deep, but its 118 miles wide, which is 623,040 feet. So, an actual cross section would look like a long, flat blue line with maybe the tiniest little bump in the middle. Same goes for all the Lakes, especially Erie.

    • @7DaysChanel_VandenReich
      @7DaysChanel_VandenReich 4 месяца назад +3

      @@joe.b944 Not so deep as Baikal (5387,139 feet). It's like the height of two Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.

    • @johannfrederichk3473
      @johannfrederichk3473 4 месяца назад +3

      I guarantee you, that The Great Lakes are called that for a reason. If you're paying that much attention to the "drop off", you might wanna rethink that. Those lakes aren't as skinny as football fields or towers.

  • @kodoro6684
    @kodoro6684 4 месяца назад +1

    I remember going on a camping trip to lake Michigan with my boyfriend and some friends. Wonderful times, astonishing scenery

  • @AnneEloiseOfCNY
    @AnneEloiseOfCNY 5 месяцев назад +4

    Some time ago I moved from NYC to upstate NY. I have wondered about the Great Lakes! I know so little about them. It is great to know their depths! And your illustrative pictures are really so good. Thanks for this!

  • @sociosanch3748
    @sociosanch3748 5 месяцев назад +9

    Because of the sizes, it always amazes me how looking into the horizon at the coasts is like looking out into the ocean.

  • @MichaelBrewick
    @MichaelBrewick 5 месяцев назад +57

    Lake Baikal is a lake too...
    It is 5300 feet deep.
    And clear!

    • @michaelmosier5627
      @michaelmosier5627 5 месяцев назад +12

      It is the deepest and oldest lake in the world.

    • @MichaelBrewick
      @MichaelBrewick 5 месяцев назад +7

      @@michaelmosier5627 ...and over a geologically young, rapidly expanding rift feature. Fascinating

    • @Klemeq
      @Klemeq 5 месяцев назад +9

      Not only deep, but has more volume than all great lakes combined. It contains 20% of all the world's fresh water.

    • @StuStevens-rn7rb
      @StuStevens-rn7rb 5 месяцев назад

      @@MichaelBrewick where is it?

    • @MichaelBrewick
      @MichaelBrewick 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@StuStevens-rn7rb North of Mongolia

  • @ahill209
    @ahill209 3 месяца назад +1

    Since Lake Erie is the shallowest great lake, it also exchanges its water faster than any other great lake. When EPA regulations for effluents was enacted, Lake Eric recovered the fastest, as evidenced by increased population of fish e.g. walleye.

  • @bigdaddio1959
    @bigdaddio1959 5 месяцев назад +23

    Placing Lake Superior as the 4th deepest lake in the US behind Crater, Tahoe and Chelan

    • @chikidd24
      @chikidd24 5 месяцев назад +3

      Great lakes not regular lakes

    • @bigdaddio1959
      @bigdaddio1959 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@chikidd24 Okay. My statement was to indicate its place among all lakes even though the video was about Great Lakes.

    • @chikidd24
      @chikidd24 5 месяцев назад +1

      @bigdaddio1959 why would he do that when it's about great lakes u just answered your own question 😂

    • @bigdaddio1959
      @bigdaddio1959 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@chikidd24 you need to work on reading comprehension

    • @chikidd24
      @chikidd24 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@bigdaddio1959 I learned from your mother

  • @jamesmerry6725
    @jamesmerry6725 5 месяцев назад +21

    Never take Gitche Gumee for granted

  • @kalebjenkins2163
    @kalebjenkins2163 5 месяцев назад +5

    Super scary part of them aswell is it is an IMMEDIATE drop off to the deep parts, almost all the edges of lake superior (That I personally have swam at) were very shallow, until they weren't. Be careful!

    • @okidoxb4846
      @okidoxb4846 4 месяца назад

      yeah thats crazy how did they form like that? have u seen the edge?

  • @s1nap5e56
    @s1nap5e56 2 месяца назад +2

    Now this has to be the first size video I've seen without a wacky comparison. I'm a bit dissapointed that I don't know how many Cybertrucks stacked on top of each other I can fit into Lake Superior.

  • @AugustusAsgeir
    @AugustusAsgeir 5 месяцев назад +7

    From Chicago, and grew up along Lake Michigan... interesting times

  • @dorissaclaire
    @dorissaclaire 5 месяцев назад +34

    Those graphics were some of the most confusing I’ve ever seen

    • @zachv
      @zachv 5 месяцев назад +9

      You never seen a cross-section before it’s not confusing in the slightest It’s just to show you the depth of the lake not any other weird information that you’re trying to shove in there for absolutely no reason

    • @the_undead
      @the_undead 4 месяца назад +4

      From what I understand, those are not the real cross-sections of these lakes, or at least if they are, they're taken from a very odd angle, The deepest parts are not a significant percentage of their overall area, although that graphic of Lake Superior is pretty demonstrative of why it's called Lake Superior, It has the most fresh water of any one Source anywhere in the world by quite the wide margin

    • @baw5615
      @baw5615 4 месяца назад

      @@the_undead i looked it up and the baikal has a volume of 5,660 cu mi and lake tanganyika has 4,500 cu mi compared to the 2,900 cu mi of lake superior

    • @bluelagooon
      @bluelagooon 4 месяца назад

      You can't perceive things very well can you

    • @the_undead
      @the_undead 4 месяца назад

      @@baw5615 The thing is the great lakes are technically all connected and when you consider them all together then what I said is definitely still true and regardless it is a truly ridiculous amount of fresh water all in one location

  • @JustAnEgg69420
    @JustAnEgg69420 4 месяца назад +9

    As a Michigan man, I agree 100%!

  • @Harpazoed
    @Harpazoed 4 месяца назад +4

    I went snorkeling in Lake Michigan and it was 660 feet deep. It’s really freaky snorkeling in that deep of water it’s all black.

    • @Eddiedubes
      @Eddiedubes 4 месяца назад +3

      I bet it was cold af

    • @Harpazoed
      @Harpazoed 4 месяца назад

      @@Eddiedubes yes. I didn’t have a diving suit on and I could only go out for about 20 minutes. My cousin did have one on though. It was still a lot of fun.

  • @ryanbradley3293
    @ryanbradley3293 5 месяцев назад +16

    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Guni”

    • @laughingoutloud5742
      @laughingoutloud5742 5 месяцев назад +5

      The Lake, it is said, never givers up their dead when the Skies of November turn gloomy...❤

  • @nunziocombattelli6311
    @nunziocombattelli6311 5 месяцев назад +92

    Imagine packing the Empire State Building but your girlfriend has Lake Superior.

  • @Skittlz1414_Channel
    @Skittlz1414_Channel 5 месяцев назад +59

    Lake superior could fill the grand canyons and then submerge the entire continuous 48 states in 2 in. of water, now imagine what would happen with all 5 of them

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 месяцев назад +9

      Contiguous*

    • @andrewhall7930
      @andrewhall7930 5 месяцев назад +2

      Lake Baikal is 3X Deeper and 6-8 x more water.

    • @WowOafus
      @WowOafus 5 месяцев назад +11

      ⁠@@andrewhall7930Baikal has 1.89 times as much water, not “6-8”, and Baikal is 4 times deeper, not 3. Superior’s surface area is 2.6 times bigger than Baikal.

    • @teufelhund3801
      @teufelhund3801 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@andrewhall7930
      Caspian Sea: 149,200 square miles.
      Lake Superior: 31,700 square miles.
      Lake Victoria: 26,828 square miles.
      Lake Huron: 23,000 square miles.
      Lake Michigan: 22,300 square miles.
      Lake Tanganyika: 12,700 square miles.
      Lake Baikal: 12,200 square miles.
      Great Bear Lake: 12,096 square miles.

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад +3

      Where did all this water come from

  • @gabemclaughlin4171
    @gabemclaughlin4171 4 месяца назад +3

    Yeah, we don't have anything like that in Oklahoma. It's definitely on my bucket list to fish the great lakes. My favorite species is smallmouth bass and from what I have seen, that's where the giants live

    • @charlesx593
      @charlesx593 2 месяца назад

      Just a heads up, upon leaving we reserved the right to check your bags, cause people out west have been trying to steal our water for decades. Lol

  • @williammorris3303
    @williammorris3303 5 месяцев назад +24

    I worked a boat on the Mississippi River and was terrified when the sounder showed more than 300’. It didn’t help that all the doors in the boat opened out meaning if you were going down water pressure would hold the doors closed

    • @Mattkennedy83
      @Mattkennedy83 5 месяцев назад +11

      Whoa, where on the Mississippi does it get 300’ deep?

    • @Dave-dn3tz
      @Dave-dn3tz 5 месяцев назад

      A number of places.​@@Mattkennedy83

    • @Pwnopolis
      @Pwnopolis 5 месяцев назад

      Everywhere within a few years.
      Climate change is a bitch.

    • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
      @Starry_Night_Sky7455 5 месяцев назад

      Yikes! That's something a movie director could borrow for a suspenseful scene.

  • @timrowlett5451
    @timrowlett5451 6 месяцев назад +19

    We love our great lakes. Go Michigan!

    • @dmarshall9927
      @dmarshall9927 5 месяцев назад +2

      Ontario!! But i love all of them.. Im from Toronto but Americans from the region are more similar to me than Canadians from out west

  • @jeromemorgan4928
    @jeromemorgan4928 5 месяцев назад +12

    Oceans of fresh water 💧

  • @videoettaceo8900
    @videoettaceo8900 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm in Chicago and I live directly on the lakefront. Lake Michigama is awesome, beautiful and terrifying.

  • @MaggieGrubs
    @MaggieGrubs 6 месяцев назад +46

    They are surprisingly 'shallow', Lake Como in Northern Italy is 1364 feet deep (416meters). It is much smaller though

    • @Epoch11
      @Epoch11 6 месяцев назад +18

      Wow that's really shallow, Lake Baikal in Russia is 5,300 feet deep which is 1,640 m. Lol. That's what you get for calling my Lake shallow.😘

    • @MaggieGrubs
      @MaggieGrubs 6 месяцев назад +6

      @Epoch11 That serves me right! Compared to lake Baikal, Lake Como is just a big puddle 😘

    • @lilydiring4295
      @lilydiring4295 6 месяцев назад +14

      @@Epoch11Genuinelly crazy how deep that is. Google says it is roughly 20% of all unfrozen fresh water in the world

    • @loganmocherman3053
      @loganmocherman3053 5 месяцев назад +13

      Most are shallow due to a sedimentary basin capping their depth. Superior is deeper because it's a "failed" rifting zone.

    • @Robyrob7771
      @Robyrob7771 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@MaggieGrubs
      Is Lake Como a rift lake?

  • @PoutinePete
    @PoutinePete 6 месяцев назад +43

    Lake Baikal (Siberia) max depth: 5387 feet

    • @mopacwestgate
      @mopacwestgate 6 месяцев назад

      You beat me , good job...Why he would not include that fascinating piece of info is beyond me.??

    • @jakebarnes28
      @jakebarnes28 6 месяцев назад +33

      ​@@mopacwestgatebecause he's talking about the Great Lakes. Did your mother consume alcohol while pregnant?

    • @Epoch11
      @Epoch11 6 месяцев назад +4

      Lake Baikal is the deepest Lake in the entire world. It has barely been explored and has very unique wildlife.

    • @echoromeo384
      @echoromeo384 6 месяцев назад +15

      Who cares? What does that have to do with the great lakes?

    • @PoutinePete
      @PoutinePete 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@echoromeo384 It has everything to do with The Great Lakes.

  • @SPACEMAN_fkYT
    @SPACEMAN_fkYT 5 месяцев назад +4

    I was building an Eddie Bauer store in Michigan once and a resident told me there were times of the year that you could walk across Lake Michigan. Apparently they never tried to.

    • @melanieortiz712
      @melanieortiz712 5 месяцев назад +2

      You can drive across some of the more eastern lakes. There's a few Mowhawk reservations that span the borders. they will drivee across during the deep winter.

    • @sharonwilbourne7256
      @sharonwilbourne7256 4 месяца назад

      For average ice cover for the Great Lakes is 53% and has decreased by 5% per decade since the 1970's.
      Lake cover can range from less than 20% to more than 90%.
      Crossing the Great Lakes will depend on ice cover on any given year. People and other animals have been known to cross the ice on Great Lakes on two or four legs by walking, skiing, skating, riding, or dog sleding. Using mechanical or motorized vehicles including snowmobiles, iceboats airboats, and others.

    • @sharonwilbourne7256
      @sharonwilbourne7256 4 месяца назад

      The trend of lessening ice cover on the Great Lakes is being attributed to global warming.

    • @SPACEMAN_fkYT
      @SPACEMAN_fkYT 4 месяца назад

      @@melanieortiz712 I'm talking about the water being shallow enough to walk across.

    • @SPACEMAN_fkYT
      @SPACEMAN_fkYT 4 месяца назад

      @@sharonwilbourne7256 I'm talking about the water being shallow enough to walk across.

  • @JakeKoenig
    @JakeKoenig 4 месяца назад +2

    Apparently all the Great Lakes are less than two city blocks wide, based on these images. Not gonna lie, they look a little bigger than that on Google Maps.

    • @JackTheripper911
      @JackTheripper911 4 месяца назад +1

      Lol they are far wider than that 😂. Trying to a picture to compare to real life is stupid.

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 2 месяца назад +1

      St. Clair is just a dot on the map. It's a pretty big lake

  • @miapdx503
    @miapdx503 5 месяцев назад +15

    My first ten years of life were in Lorain, Ohio. I've been on boats in Lake Erie, and the feeling you get when you look in all directions and cannot see land...just blue water and blue sky...I was frightened, and humbled. 🙁🌹⚓

    • @kyleshape8645
      @kyleshape8645 5 месяцев назад +2

      The American Shipbuilding Company of Lorain, Ohio built a lot of the lakes' freighters over the years.

  • @JoseMartinez-xi5nr
    @JoseMartinez-xi5nr 5 месяцев назад +14

    I love the way you guys do investigation for something seemingly boring and make it interesting and use different ways for us to understand how deep it is by using buildings to visualize it! Kudos well done!

  • @Big_Steg
    @Big_Steg 4 месяца назад +1

    fun fact
    there are two more lakes located in northern canada the size of the great lakes, one of which is over 2000 ft deep (614 metres). These lakes are called Great Bear & Great Slave lakes.

  • @ICEWALRUS
    @ICEWALRUS 6 месяцев назад +17

    For our metric friends:
    Erie 64m
    Huron 228m
    Ontario 244m
    Michigan 284m
    Superior 406m

    • @Carl_McMelvin
      @Carl_McMelvin 6 месяцев назад +7

      Gay

    • @janwide72
      @janwide72 6 месяцев назад

      @@Carl_McMelvin means happy

    • @fear_the_smile961
      @fear_the_smile961 6 месяцев назад

      Ew a filthy euro. Begone.

    • @klasupoika704
      @klasupoika704 6 месяцев назад

      Thanks

    • @miketyson1717
      @miketyson1717 5 месяцев назад

      I agree, metric system is completely homo erotic ​@@Carl_McMelvin

  • @neilpuckett359
    @neilpuckett359 5 месяцев назад +6

    There are a lot of unknown ship wrecks.

  • @tvviewer4500
    @tvviewer4500 5 месяцев назад +6

    The Edmund Fitzgerald was 730 feet long

    • @imagseer
      @imagseer Месяц назад

      It broke in two pieces. Maybe rogue waves snapped it by making the bow hit the bottom

  • @morningrosie3684
    @morningrosie3684 4 месяца назад +2

    I've been to lake Superior and lake Michigan a couple times. They look like oceans, and the water is extremely clear. Lots of cool rocks on the shore too.

  • @tobycat415
    @tobycat415 5 месяцев назад +4

    Feets, hands, eagles... But how many meters/ kilometers?

    • @sabretooth1997
      @sabretooth1997 5 месяцев назад

      Rule of thumb:
      1 decameter = 0.045 Edmund Fitzgeralds.

    • @nat0rade
      @nat0rade 4 месяца назад

      Metric is useless cuz how does 1.58m help for height? Just say 5 feet 😂

    • @Kazako83
      @Kazako83 4 месяца назад

      @@nat0radeIt’s better because its decimal based, it’s inherently better. 100cm=a meter, 1000m = a kilometer etc… Here’s a good example, what is 1.58 dollars? Obviously, a dollar and 58 cents. Easy. But go back to victorian england and you can’t possibly understand the currency system because it isn’t decimal based, and like the Imperial system you have no definite rule for what makes up a Pound.
      That’s why Imperial sucks and is not used in the US Military or most of the industrial sector here.

  • @xtrachrisb488
    @xtrachrisb488 5 месяцев назад +8

    The lake Superior profile looks like the # number one hand

  • @steverogers1976
    @steverogers1976 6 месяцев назад +9

    Seems deep enough to operate submarines in there.

    • @mechcommander7876
      @mechcommander7876 5 месяцев назад +9

      People hear “great lakes” and their mind goes to backyard pond.
      The Great Lakes are freshwater inland seas. To think any less of them is foolish. Like any of the saltwater seas/oceans, the Great Lakes will swallow you alive without a care.

    • @biggusnikus6280
      @biggusnikus6280 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@mechcommander7876it really does throw me off seeing full size container ships there.

    • @warriyorcat
      @warriyorcat 5 месяцев назад +1

      They'd be confined to one (maybe two) lakes. You'd have to travel through the Soo Locks to get from Superior to Huron/Michigan; through the St Mary's river and Lake St Clair to get from Huron to Erie (Lake St Clair has to be regularly dredge to keep it deep enough for shipping); travel from Erie to Ontario is restricted by Niagara Falls, the Niagara River, and the depth of the Welland Canal.

    • @averyw.3939
      @averyw.3939 5 месяцев назад +2

      Absolutely. The US Navy has a submarine test program in Lake Pend Oreille in N Idaho and that's at "only" 1,150 ft deep. The subs are scaled down but they're still pretty sizeable.

  • @TheNothing6
    @TheNothing6 4 месяца назад +1

    I used to go boating and tubing on my uncle's boat on Lake Erie when I was a kid. It really does look like an ocean. Smallest, shallowest, it doesn't matter. it's still huge! The waves are incredible for a lake.

  • @lorilyons1638
    @lorilyons1638 6 месяцев назад +11

    I guess i dont understand how a glacier can make them that deep

    • @jameszygula8241
      @jameszygula8241 6 месяцев назад +15

      The glacier was 10k feet thick.

    • @Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan
      @Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan 6 месяцев назад +4

      It can't

    • @lazaruslazuli6130
      @lazaruslazuli6130 6 месяцев назад +9

      Not only will a glacier gouge out the softer materiel and transfer it south, the sheer weight of a glacier can depress the ground underneath it, squeezing the ground out in different directions. (Imagine placing a hot potato on a stick of butter).

    • @mysticmadman5961
      @mysticmadman5961 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan I'd bet they are aquifers with tunnels and shafts that go to deeper waters waaaaay underground.

    • @zach2382
      @zach2382 5 месяцев назад

      @@Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan yes they can

  • @roberthein2156
    @roberthein2156 5 месяцев назад +4

    I can sleep now thanks uploads !

  • @berniemiller2992
    @berniemiller2992 6 месяцев назад +31

    Remember that four out of five Great Lakes prefers Michigan!

    • @rickallen1908
      @rickallen1908 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yea, but the biggest city only got a river. 😊

    • @Carl_McMelvin
      @Carl_McMelvin 6 месяцев назад +3

      Gay

  • @Gato-rz2bt
    @Gato-rz2bt 3 месяца назад

    I live in between 2- Lake Erie and Lake Ontario- right along the Niagara River. They are truly beautiful. The love I have for the land here is immense.

  • @SlackerHead83
    @SlackerHead83 5 месяцев назад +11

    Although lake Erie might not have the deepest parts in the Great lakes, it still holds the record out of all the Great lakes for being the most consistently deep lake. If you look at the average depths of each lake lake Erie is the deepest.

    • @cauchy1104
      @cauchy1104 4 месяца назад

      Do you mean the average as a percentage of it's max? Maybe then. Googling doesn't show the average depth of eerie to be the deepest.

    • @woofmanblack
      @woofmanblack 4 месяца назад

      This folks, is why you don't listen to a Slacker.

  • @lucky_overdrive4426
    @lucky_overdrive4426 5 месяцев назад +5

    Why is Lake Superior a hand pointing to hell

    • @JackTheripper911
      @JackTheripper911 4 месяца назад

      Because when Lake Superior claims her dead they go straight to hell.

  • @roseblud995
    @roseblud995 5 месяцев назад +5

    Lol i guessed Superior was deepest bc of that Gordon Lightfoot song.

    • @Primalxbeast
      @Primalxbeast 5 месяцев назад

      But it's thought that the ship broke in half because the bow hit the bottom of the lake. The lake may have been dangerous because of its size, but the ship may have been safer in deeper waters.

  • @EduardoGR1004
    @EduardoGR1004 4 месяца назад +2

    Is it that hard to use both unit systems? 😢

  • @mikegreene8461
    @mikegreene8461 6 месяцев назад +8

    First time I have heard someone mispronounce Eiffel Tower.

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 6 месяцев назад +1

      that's a typical American pronunciation

    • @Mr_Burns22
      @Mr_Burns22 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@geoffroi-le-Hook Speak for yourself

    • @veganmocha
      @veganmocha 5 месяцев назад +3

      That’s how everyone pronounces it, my guy

    • @mikegreene8461
      @mikegreene8461 5 месяцев назад

      That is how no one pronounces it. I suggest you listen to what he says again. My guy 🤏🧠​@@veganmocha

    • @fraskf6765
      @fraskf6765 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@veganmochano its not, my guuy. He said Effel tower. The people of france and europe as a whole probably know how to pronounce it. But of course the vegan murican knows it better because you know everything better than anyone else, riight?

  • @poindextertunes
    @poindextertunes 3 месяца назад +4

    “Easily swallow the Empire State Building”
    She sounds like a keeper 😅

  • @kimepp2216
    @kimepp2216 6 месяцев назад +4

    Great Slave Lake is more than 2000 ft deep.

    • @Maaaattologyyyy
      @Maaaattologyyyy 5 месяцев назад

      And

    • @birdgod5584
      @birdgod5584 4 месяца назад

      And it's average depth is shown at only around 100 ft

    • @kimepp2216
      @kimepp2216 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Maaaattologyyyythat makes it the deepest of the great lakes.

  • @bolillo5013
    @bolillo5013 4 месяца назад

    This is actually amazing; it's really inspiring to see how he found and developed his style over time.

  • @carultch
    @carultch 5 месяцев назад +6

    If it were my choice, I'd suggest comparing each Great Lake to a city on its shoreline. Like Duluth for Lake Superior, Chicago for Lake Michigan, Detroit for Lake Huron (you did that), Cleveland for Lake Erie, and Buffalo for Lake Ontario.

    • @colin-nekritz
      @colin-nekritz 5 месяцев назад +1

      Tell everyone you don’t know sh!t about geography while telling everyone you don’t know sh!t about geography. Buffalo isn’t on Lake Ontario, it’s on Erie.

    • @squigglyline5021
      @squigglyline5021 4 месяца назад

      And Detroit for Huron? No man

    • @ryanb45
      @ryanb45 4 месяца назад +1

      Toronto for Lake Ontario

  • @drunkweeb349
    @drunkweeb349 6 месяцев назад +15

    Reminder to non-Michiganders, dont come looking for water in the apocalypse. We dont share

    • @Robyrob7771
      @Robyrob7771 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@drunkweeb349
      The Great Lakes states signed a pact to not send Great Lakes water elsewhere.

    • @johnleriger8730
      @johnleriger8730 5 месяцев назад

      What are you blabbering about?

    • @warriyorcat
      @warriyorcat 5 месяцев назад +3

      Some westerners experiencing drought had proposed piping water from the Great Lakes out west to fix it. Ignoring the technological infeasibility, they'd come up against not only US political and legal shit but also Canadian political and legal shit.

    • @KtotheG
      @KtotheG 2 месяца назад

      In an apocalypse scenario, it's survival of the fittest. You'd have to have the necessary reinforcements to protect against marauders.

  • @twitch1965
    @twitch1965 5 месяцев назад +5

    thanks for keeping it real with feet not meters!

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 месяцев назад

      You realise that every branch of the US military, the US scientific community, plus US engineers and architects all use the metric system. It is only the everyday Joe who can't adapt to an objectively superior system of weights and measures that is the metric system.

    • @zach2382
      @zach2382 5 месяцев назад

      @@castleanthrax1833 there’s nothing objectively superior about metric it does the exact same thing it’s just makes the conversions a little easier for people who aren’t good at math which apparently is most of the world

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 месяцев назад

      @@zach2382 It's funny how my comment is no longer visible, isn't it? Why are Americans so threatened by facts? Yes, the metric system is objectively superior. Our whole system of maths is based around the number 10, just like the metric system. That's what makes it superior... its ease of use.

    • @zach2382
      @zach2382 5 месяцев назад

      @@castleanthrax1833 it’s based on the number 10 so we don’t have to do math because math is hard how many times do you have to convert between units? Oh yeah, almost never there’s no reason to do it.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 5 месяцев назад

      @zach2382 The metric system is based on the number 10 because that is a better way.
      "How many times do you need to convert between units"??
      All the time. If you didn't, you wouldn't have mentioned the conversions being easier in your previous comment.

  • @JustaChillguy_21
    @JustaChillguy_21 4 месяца назад +1

    I live in Michigan and I’ve been to all 5 lakes, Lake Superior is just amazing kayaking there is so much fun!

  • @HollyDutton-wz8fe
    @HollyDutton-wz8fe 5 месяцев назад +5

    i have heard that storms are worse on the Great Lakes than on the ocean.

    • @JackTheripper911
      @JackTheripper911 4 месяца назад

      I highly doubt that considering the oceans are where Hurricanes form lol. Yes the Great lakes can have some pretty bad storms and some of them can get worse than some ocean storms, but when worst comes to worst the ocean can create way worse storms, again Hurricanes form in the oceans. I don't see Hurricanes forming in the great lakes.

  • @timothygermann780
    @timothygermann780 6 месяцев назад +12

    Lake superior is still only the 42nd deepest lake in the world

  • @ricahaurymn
    @ricahaurymn 5 месяцев назад +4

    Not sure where I read it, but L. Superior isn't really a lake given its specifics, but an inland Sea.

  • @junecoulthard8942
    @junecoulthard8942 3 месяца назад

    This is pretty cool learning just how deep our Lakes are! 🤽‍♀️🌊 WoW good old Lake Superior is so Deep!

  • @yoboydivine
    @yoboydivine 6 месяцев назад +20

    You would never know by just looking on the surface 😮

    • @Epoch11
      @Epoch11 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yes exactly because based on how flat the land is, it definitely does not seem like there's that much of a drop. The area around the lake is practically a mountain when compared to the bottom.