A journey to Superior Maximus

A crew of Canadians and Michiganders took a remote operated vehicle (ROV) to the deepest point of Lake Superior, a point known as Superior Maximus. It’s the first such attempt in some 40 years. In that attempt UW-Milwaukee researcher J. Val Klump piloted a submersible craft to the deep. This one was done by a robot which feels safer and kinder to the lake. To give a sense of how deep Superior Maximus is, the surface is about 650 feet above sea level and the deepest point is 733 feet below sea level. In fact, a similar thing happens in every state that borders the Great Lakes except Pennsylvania. It really reinforces how large and deep these lakes are. The crew included Michigan DNR researcher Shawn Sitar, and filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick. The footage from this expedition will be part of their forthcoming documentary, Hidden Below: The Great Lakes. Drebert and Melnick are fellows for the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, and have produced several documentaries about the…