Superior Maximus | Hidden Below: Live

Join a livestreamed expedition to the deepest point in the Great Lakes! Explore a hidden underwater world from your own screen and have your questions answered LIVE.
June 6, 2026

1 PM ET
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More than 400 meters (1,300 feet) beneath Lake Superior lies the deepest point in the Great Lakes. It’s a place where no light reaches and few people have ever seen. Great Lakes Now is teaming up with freshwater explorers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick to send cameras to the bottom and explore the area for the first time in 40 years.
What we're hoping to see:
• The kiyi, a rare deepwater fish that is believed to live only in Lake Superior
• Alien looking deepwater sculpin
• Forests of colorful hydra
• The deepwater-adapted siscowet lake trout
Along for the voyage is Michigan DNR fisheries biologist Shawn Sitar, who has been investigating the recent appearance of "zombie fish," emaciated siscowet turning up across Lake Superior, many of them from the deepest parts of the lake.
Watch live and ask questions in real time as Drebert, Melnick, and Sitar guide you through the depths of one of the largest lakes on Earth.
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