The Great Lakes – a series of interconnected tarns, spanning across the northeast of America and spilling across the Canadian border – are freshwater monsters. Hence the name, they're big. Big enough ...

GRAND HAVEN, MI — Lake Michigan was rocking on Tuesday as November gales whip up large waves along the shoreline. A Gale Warning was in effect from St. Joseph to Manistee until 10 p.m. Tuesday night.

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse stood on a brutal basalt rock just over a mile from shore, with its light positioned 136 feet above the sea. The transcript describes waves powerful enough to carry away a ...