An explorer came face to face with perhaps Lake Michigan's most intact shipwreck, the John V. Moran, which rests nearly 400 feet deep and just 12 miles off Muskegon’s shoreline.

An explorer comes face to face with perhaps Lake Michigan’s most intact shipwreck, the John V. Moran, which rests nearly 400 feet deep and just 12 miles off Muskegon’s shoreline.

An explorer comes face to face with perhaps Lake Michigan’s most intact shipwreck, the John V. Moran, which rests nearly 400 feet deep and just 12 miles off Muskegon’s shoreline.

According to the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, the Moran met its fateful end during the big winter storm of 1899. “The crew was bucking ice,” van Heest said.