The lake erie (I'm in Buffalo) shipwrecks are interesting. It's not the waves are so aggressive, it's that the lake is so shallow in places that something like a really long grain freighter will get lifted up on large swell and then slide down the wave, hit the bottom, and break up ... At least that's what I've heard.

: Hello Jim,
: Well from what I hear you guys have more than your share of shipwrecks! Don't
: discount your skills, I hear the waves are smaller but there's more of
: them and they are more powerful. Not to mention much colder. I didn't have
: the immediate threat of hypothermia to deal with if I got dumped out
: there.

: The water here is beautiful, but as soon as you leave that pretty blue beach
: it can get pretty nasty. ...but I like it that way!

: -Malcolm