Local Podcasts
There’s More to That from Smithsonian magazine: Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
by
November 24, 2025
Tamara Thomsen is a maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Maritime Preservation and Archaeology program. Her job is to investigate and survey shipwreck sites. In this episode, host Ari Daniel speaks with Thomsen about how she took up this profession, why she views shipwrecks as time capsules, why so many vessels met their watery grave on the Great Lakes, and how one stays warm at depth when diving for these wrecks for hours at a time.
New to WCNY is There’s More to That from Smithsonian magazine. What’s the local connection? WCNY’s Genevieve Sponsler is the executive producer of There’s More to That, which is produced by PRX Productions.
