Join a livestreamed expedition to the deepest point in the Great Lakes! Explore a hidden underwater world from your own screen and have your questions answered LIVE.
More than 1,300 feet beneath the surface of Lake Superior lies the deepest point of the Great Lakes. It’s so deep that no light reaches it, and it has not been visited in 40 years.
On June 6, we’re going back. LIVE.
Great Lakes Now is teaming up with freshwater explorers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick to send a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to the bottom of Lake Superior. High resolution cameras will broadcast the descent in real-time and document the environment in unprecedented detail.
What We’re Hoping to See:
• The kiyi, a rare deepwater fish that is believed to live only in Lake Superior
• Alien looking deepwater sculpin
• Forests of colorful hydra
• The deepwater-adapted siscowet lake trout
Along for the voyage is Michigan DNR fisheries biologist Shawn Sitar, who has been investigating the recent appearance of “zombie fish,” emaciated siscowet turning up across Lake Superior, many of them from the deepest parts of the lake.
Watch live and ask questions in real time as Drebert, Melnick, and Sitar guide you through the depths of one of the largest lakes on Earth.
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Watch Past Livestreams
We explored the warm water outflow of Bruce Power, one of the largest nuclear power plants on the planet. The warm water attracts a variety of fish species year-round.
