115-Year-Old Shipwreck Found in Lake Superior

On May 13, 1899, The Nelson -- a 199-foot, three-masted wooden schooner -- was being towed to port off of Grand Marais in Michigan, when a rare spring gale hit. When the towline broke, and Captain Haganey realized the ship was going down, he tried his best to save the other nine people on board, including his wife and infant child, by remaining on the sinking ship and shuffling them onto a lifeboat. Unfortunately, after jumping from the sinking ship, Captain Haganey found that the quickly sinking schooner had taken the lifeboat with it, and he was the only survivor of the tragedy. Now, 115 years later, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Society has found the wreck at the bottom of Lake Superior. Learn more about it here: http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/