In this episode, Globe Trekker adventurer Holly Morris explores the waters that shaped America - the Great Lakes. Covering 94,000 square miles, the Great Lakes are the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet and one of the world's busiest waterways. For centuries these waters have been a critical trade artery, determining the history and economy of North America and the world.

@tmontgomery7592

21 күн бұрын

I knew i recognized her from somewhere.

@STEEPPOW

2 күн бұрын

At the 18 minute mark you see the myth of lake Michigan, and Huron, being two lakes. Lake Michigan is one gigantic like. There’s a misnomer to consider at two lakes, split by a bridge and magically separate.

I am proud to have been a small part of this. I'm the one sharing Michigan's lumber industry with Holly.

@___beyondhorizon4664

9 күн бұрын

I'm a Sparta, but I didn't know much about the shipping industry on the Great Lakes after taking many trips to the UP😊 springs in Travis City was beautiful

@colonialstraits1069

5 күн бұрын

Lumberman’s Monument and the Au Sable dune are always a stop when I’m up there.

@steady3459

3 күн бұрын

So you are Responsible for the DEVISTATED Forests in Mich ! GOOD JOB . Just RV parking lots Now ! REAL CAMPING IS A THING OF THE PAST ! 🎉🛶😒

@mikescott3370

2 күн бұрын

@@steady3459first of all no that was 80 years ago and now we have 30,000 miles of lush forest! I’m from the area so please don’t disrespect it if you don’t know!

@alfee9411

Күн бұрын

Thank You

hahaha..... homeboy was blushing in that little bridge elevator

@keebz75

22 күн бұрын

That woulda been great to be In that thing with her like that!

@timothyhill9146

18 күн бұрын

She is pretty!

@RealJeep

18 күн бұрын

Not a bad person to be stuck in a small elevator with, minus the cameraperson.

@blauer2551

17 күн бұрын

Better than Bubba the painter

@wishinifishin5172

15 күн бұрын

Yeah...he did this on purpose.

Growing up on the Detroit River many of us are avid Freighter watchers. Watched about every documentary possible on the subject. This one was very well done.

@FreeDocumentary

19 күн бұрын

excellent - glad you liked it!

Nobody in the great lakes call's it the Southern or Northern Peninsula. It's the Upper and Lower Peninsula.

@johncordes7885

11 күн бұрын

Lower trolls and upper yoopers

@JonKorpi-fk7yo

3 күн бұрын

As a yooper I think of michigan as two separate states governed by one😢😢😢😢

An absolute top class bit of journalism and story telling

Holly is an amazing presenter and super brave especially getting up on that bridge. I had to laugh when the captain was manoeuvring the ship and holly was like, "this must be the hardest trickiest part of your job, let me ask you a bunch of questions whilst you're executing that!" lol

I watched a ton of documentaries about Michigan because I love living here and learning about all things Michigan. I am only 8 minutes into this documentary and I love it already.

I work for Interlake Stramship Company and the PRT is one of the easiest ships to work on. I was part of the first crew when the Mark W Barker launched and been sailing 7 years. The hardest working ships to work on is the Dorothy Ann Pathfinder, Herbert C Jackson and maybe the Kaye barker. However the Mark Barker is running all those short trips like those boats so it’s a different kind of work. I know all those crew members on the PRT in this video. I’m a relief Bosun/ deck boss as well as relief wheelsman on the Mesabi miner my permanent ship. @FreeDocumentary

I retired 2012 off M/V PAUL R. TREGURTHA😅

The elevator scene made me laugh XD but loved the documentary. It's such a beautiful region

@johnstudd4245

19 күн бұрын

I would love to go to the top of the tower, but ain't no way in hades you would get me in that little elevator!!!

The elevator scene is the best. I never expected to laugh so hard on a boat documentary.

@toms7947

7 күн бұрын

Agreed. He could have warned her how small it was!

@smf2072

16 сағат бұрын

What is "lough?'

@qv81

15 сағат бұрын

@@smf2072 It's writing English using Norwegian autocorrect and fighting it every word. ;)

The captain is in the middle of performing several maneuvers and conversing with multiple crew members on the radio. A very, very important task. And she keeps asking him questions the whole time. LOL. That captain had A TON OF PATIENCE !!

Oscoda local born and raised! We are very proud of our Lumberjack history and have lots of respect for them! Very cool video

I love these world's toughest boat trips. Please post more.

The thought of being on a freighter on a great lake is a surreal feeling

The amount of coal transported in the Paul R. Tregurtha in this trip was 71,000 tons, worth $7.668 million and generates roughly 156,200 mWh of energy. It's absolutely shocking how important just this one ship is to powering the northern US and southern Canada.

The bridge is called the "Mighty Mac". Grew up in Gaylord, but my mom and pop grew up in Rogers City. Pop sailed the great lakes when they were still steam ships. He sailed the Fitzgerald before it went down. He talked about how dangerous the ship was- loose rivets and all. He told us he could stand at one end of the ship and when it hit a wave, the light would disappear.......couldn't see the other end. What you don't realize is that the great lakes can swell unlike anything you could imagine. After Mom got pregnant, she demanded Pop get off the ships. He did. We had a collection of slides and a projector. Every year we'd make Pop narrate the slides as we projected them onto a white sheet. The pictures of the storms, ice and snow was crazy. Sadly, then we moved south, those slides melted in the attic. More sadly, I lost my Pop 4 years ago. Man, I miss the stories.......

Best way to keep the crew happy is by having great food…thank you Paul!

Holly... You are a genuine adventurer, a gifted storyteller, and a great narrator. Among the best Great Lakes documentary flicks I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing it!!!

@JuicyPeaches504

11 күн бұрын

Holly is awesome! You might like Stacy Dooley's documentaries. I love her series "Stacy Dooley sleeps over". 🧡

This was awesome. Thank you so much for featuring the lakes. We have lived on our sailboat for 12 years and sailed extensively in the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. Prior to moving aboard and heading south, we sailed and cruised on the Great Lakes for 30 years. The most beautiful anchorages are in the North Channel and Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. And the worst storms we have ever encountered have been on the Great Lakes. 40 knots with 12-14 ft waves with square tops and a short wave train is way worse than 40 knots and 25 feet on the North Atlantic.

The shallowest Great Lake has the most ship wrecks, Lake Erie. Erie can go from glass to treacherous in the matter of minutes

Awesome show and I like the way Holly is doing it. She asks the right questions and she is nice to look at as well :)

Todd was definitely rizzing up Holly 😂

I had family working the ships in the lakes, three were chief engineers and one a ship’s captain. They also ran speedboats across Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River running booze.

I go across that bridge all the time and never knew it had a elevator lol. I guess I thought they climbed a ladder. I worked on the Tregurtha for a while and it is a nice ship. One reason it's nice is that it has a single belt unloading system. Makes cleaning much easier. The only drawback on that boat is you share the head (bathroom) with the room next door. not sure why they did that. Older footers you get your own. The only problem with great lakes shipping is it does not take any real time to get anywhere. Lots of work goes on during the trip. Such as say cleaning the tunnel, you get 5 hours of sleep then through the locks. 3 more hours of sleep. Then a workday then 5 hours of sleep then Superior/Duluth. Not like the ocean where you pick up a load and then it takes 5 days to get somewhere. Anyway not a bad job but very physical. I liked this documentary

Elevator ride to cloud 9 sure was awkward. I wonder if they descended together 😅😄

This was a great documentary! Please post more videos like this, it was well documented. Thank you.

Anyone else surprised at the accomodations on the Ship for Holly?

@thekrls1

15 күн бұрын

Nah, most of those large freighters have a couple designated rooms for passengers. And MV Paul R Tregurtha is widely known as the “Queen of the Great Lakes”. It definitely is a heck of a work horse.

@larry648

9 күн бұрын

The PRT is the fleets flags ship, so they have very nice guest quarters. They also get used for every shipping documentary that come to the lakes.

The horn salute is epic on the Tregurtha!

@Tipp_Of_The_Mitt

24 күн бұрын

If you want to hear the most epic horn on the great lakes google James R Barker horn.

Watching this video is making home sick. I am from Mackinac my great grand father X 4 was a soldier stationed at fort Mackinac from 1798-1804 and after his service was completed he opened the first hotel on the island called the Lasley House or the Lasley tavern. My family still lives there and buried there also. My ancestors comprise of Scottish, English and Chippewa Indians I am am a member of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of the Chippewa Indians. I loved growing up there I remember the night the Fitzgerald went down the bridge was closed down because the waves were 20-30 tall going over the causeway of the bridge, I was in high school at the time and was into photography for the yearboook and our teacher and year book advisor lived south of the bridge and he stayed at our house because the bridge was closed so he and I jumped into his van and took some awesome photos of the storm and the bridge it was like a hurricane in November. My next door neighbor was a professional diver and he had worked on the first expedition finding the Edmond Fitzgerald. I live in Florida now but my heart is still in Mackinac.

Usually videos or pictures don't do a justice, but the view from the height of one of those bridge towers looks exhilarating!! The Mackinac bridge actually crosses over an entire Great Lake - Lake Michigan-Huron, even though they're considered as two separate ones. There's a deep trench between the two suspension towers that equalize the levels of both lakes so essentially they're two parts of the same lake.

@georgekn3mp

17 күн бұрын

Hydrologically true but don't take away one of the two Great Lakes 😂

Those frieghters have pretty nice state rooms . Ex Navy here , i always thought working on one of these for a season would be interesting

Todd was on his Mack daddy mode 😂😂😂😂

I was so glad to find this! I've been a big fan of Globe Trekker/ Lonely Planet for many years. Thought I had seen them all. Not only did I find another but the subject is something that I'm quite interested in. I wasn't disappointed and really enjoyed this. Bring more! You can find more episodes here on KZread or you can stream from some PBS channels. Every episode is top notch.

Lucky Lady. Got to ride on the "Queen" of the great Lakes. The PRT. I watch video's of the ship coming and going in Duluth. And under the Blue Water Bridge on a different channel on YT.

Awesome story, Holly Morris, ❤, I love all the stories on the lakes, especially the Paul R. Tregurthra!!!! The boat is amazing and so are the crew and all that work on the moving mighty ship!!!!!

Everything she did on this adventure would be on my bucket list Awesome doc.

I grew up fishing on the Great Lakes. I’ve since fished everywhere from Alaska to Florida to Mexico. Nothing like a Great Lakes storm, the chop is miserable.

@Jeff-xt7xs

17 күн бұрын

who would have ever thought a lake would be more dangerous than the ocean.

Great documentary! Loved the view from the top of "The bridge", (there is after all only one when we talk of the bridge). Michiganders are proud and strong, and water defines us!

Beautifully done!!! Bravo!!! Holly is the best!!!

I live outside Cleveland Ohio let’s gooooo!

My dad was a 2nd Cook/Baker for American President Lines (APL), on the water 8 months of the year traveling throughout Asia. That's about all I know about him. Had we gotten to know each other, and the job he did, I would have has a different path in life.🤔

I truly enjoyed the arrangement and story telling in this one. I learned a lot. Thank you ❤

Lifelong Detroiter but I love the area along M-23. It’s a truly underrated area. Michigan is a special place.

Fantastic documentary! Great editing and camera work. The host a beautiful woman!

Great video. We enjoyed this a lot. Our favorite vacation spot is Clayton NY on the St Lawrence River. We watch the freighters a lot on the river. It was wonderful to be able to see what is on the freighters. Thanks for filming this.

This was so well produced. Kudos!

BRAVO ! Finally a GREAT video of shipping on our Great Lakes !!!!!!!!! sbf

That was an awesome documentary. Wow., I never want to go on one of those boats. Ever!

Got a little hot in that elevator!

@willbrown8965

23 күн бұрын

Bro wanted to smash so bad

@DaleEarnhardt_

17 күн бұрын

I’m telling ya

I'm impressed with the way she handled the bridge tower. I would love to go up there but I can totally understand why some would freak out up there...

Awesome on the top of that bridge.

@andreewhangz1105

24 күн бұрын

Climbing that bridge to the top had me panicking. It is scary😮

We almost lost a Great Lakes Freighter yesterday. The Michipicoten was saliling out of Duluth and after she passed Grand Marais Minneota she "struck something underwater" and took a 15 degree list and half the crew was evacuated from the freighter while the Michipicoten was escorted to Thunder Bay for investigations

@HeavyHaulKen

17 күн бұрын

Glad they got here to port! We'll all wait for her to get inspected to hear what happened. Training and safety of crew pays off!

@rjcoady21

8 күн бұрын

It was even in this video, the ship that is. I identified quite a few seeing ive lived on the St. Mary's for a bit.

@georgekn3mp

8 күн бұрын

@@rjcoady21 i noticed the Michipicoten was going upbound in the Locks, I wonder if after going to Duluth did she start on her infamous trip? Not sure when this was actually filmed...

I used to work on the Beaver Island Ferry in the fall, and still sail northern Lake Michigan. More dangerous than the oceans when she gets angry...

I thoroughly enjoyed this video, especially the time spent on the ship. Cudos to the men and women who work on these giant boats doing a job that most of us don't even realize needs doing. Just amazing.

I have had an opportunity to dive on those shipwrecks in Thunder Bay and in the Straights of Mackinac -- unforgettable

Duluth is my fav city and watching the ships roll in is amazing!

I love my state. Michigan is beautiful and full of important history.

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you!

Shout out to all of the blue collar men of the Midwest and the entire country who do the hard work of keeping this country running!

Passed through my hometown Alpena. Hope you enjoyed it

Lady, you are amazing. Your love for adventure and courage is on another level.

@smf2072

16 сағат бұрын

omg whatever.....you tryin to get laid ?

I would be happy to show Mrs Holly around lol. Great episode thanks for sharing.

So cool to see the inside structure of Big Mac

Missed opportunity to stop at Roger's city, home the the largest limestone pit in the world. All rock is healed by ship up and down the lakes. I worked there for a few years, it was awesome.

Thank You! Fascinating! All of it!

Going up to the top of the Mackinac Bridge looks fun but it's a hard nope for me! Tom Dalden from Under The Radar Michigan tv show went to the top of the Mighty Mac a few years back but I would never do it even though the view is beautiful.

Enjoyed the video, my old stomping grounds. I used to break ice all over that area.

Very well done, more please!

I never missed any of your updates and enjoyed your channel..

Amazing ship carrying a very valuable cargo & providing great paying jobs for alot of hard working people!!!

I once watched this ship pass under the Blue Water Bridge between the U.S. and Canada. It is like watching a building floating on the water, emitting a low hum sound. As a young lad, my dad, brother and I spent many of hours fishing on Lake St. Clair with fishing the deeper shipping channel through the lake for small mouth bass and walleye. Occasionally we would have to pull anchor to get out of the way for a Laker to pass by. Ironically, there is always the one moron fishing who will wait until the last minute to move out the way of a Laker in the channel because the fish were hitter hitting heavy, or fell asleep, and would get multiple blasts of the ship's horn, which is loud enough to wake the dead for miles around. If a Laker were to have to move around a pleasure craft in the Lake St.Clair shipping channel for whatever the reason, it could get grounded, which has happened a few times, and this costs an exorbitant amount of money to get the ship unstuck. This is because outside the shipping channel, the average depth of the lake is 11 feet, which is more than the draft depth of a Laker.

Fantastic documentary!

Awesome show, thanks ! I know more now about the Great Lakes

Wonderful reportingHolly. I have watched that ship come into the Duluth harbor. Now I feel like I know that ship and the men who work on her better.

Lifetime Michigander ...been across that bridge several times...never knew about that elevator. Learn something new everyday I guess

A very interesting and informative short doc film So very cool to get to see what life is like aboard one of these amazing ships. Very well done.

Awesome documentary! Love it

Great video, truely critical infrastructure there!

If you've never worked on a ship the man at the 43:40 mark has the most important job on the ship.

I sailed those lakes a long time, as well as deep sea.

Great job showing this video

you completely missed port huron, you know the home of Thomas Edison, and the busiest international border crossing in the USA......

@77rockcity

20 күн бұрын

Is that where he demonstrated to the public his elephant 🐘 death row

Fantastic documentary!!! We love the Queen!!!

From a former native of Michigan. Thank you❤

Nice documentary 👍. But I seem to enjoy documentary from the African continent ❤ Please visit Lake Volta, located in the South-Eastern part of Ghana. It is the largest man-made lake in the world ❤

Phenomenal documentary! Entertaining and highly informative!

Wow Holly is pretty tough going up on that bridge

I live near the Great lakes! Beautiful and impressive, demanding respect of lakes.

Thank you for your report.

Hahahaha.... " NOT ON MY WATCH " said 20 times

Got to visit the Valley Camp in Sault Ste Marie Michigan

Wow, everything,,, love indiana Holly !

Holly Morris, what a beautiful talented woman... there is something about her personalty that I find overwhelming...

The discovery of deep water recovery boats and maybe the odd aircraft(French riveria) changes the place and state of mind. Yes, who knows that?

Excellent, really enjoyed it.

On her way to the Upper Peninsula she says crossing the bridge is said to be intimidating and she's gonna meet someone for some pointers. She then meets the guy in the Upper Peninsula, she already crossed lol

@nickelasso

20 күн бұрын

I noticed that too!

@georgekn3mp

17 күн бұрын

LOL you already crossed the Bridge before you asked the question!

Fantastic Documentary!😊

Fantastic video