The Vulnerable History at the Bottom of Lake Superior
Isle Royale National Park is a treasure trove of shipwrecks, but they may not last
In June of 1928, Louis Coutu, a Canadian trapper working at the mouth of the Agawa River in Lake Superior, happened upon a corked bottle carrying a startling note. Signed “Al, who is dead,” the message-in-a-bottle described the harrowing story of Alice Bettridge, the lone survivor of the SS Kamloops, shipwrecked during a blinding storm in December 1927.…
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