Geo (Gio) Rutherford

You know, isn't it so cute?

Actually, look.

I just did an enamel pin this year for the Baikal Nerpa.

Look how cute it is.

That's like the thing that I think people are always really excited about.

They're like, why can't we have a seal in the Great Lakes?

And it's like, well, give the Great Lakes another couple million years.

Yeah, but unlike the Great Lakes are more likely to fill in or to drain because they're not on a rift where it's like continually opening.

So yeah, we love Lake Baikal on Spooky Lake Month, even though unlike Lake Superior, which has this history of ships, which makes it, that's like what gives it a lot of oomph, a lot of like history and spooky power.

Like Baikal doesn't have that type of history as much because people were not using it as

They did build a train across it in the middle of the winter, though, in 1904.

So it still has a little bit of a morbid history on that front where like giant, you know, pieces of this train would crack and go through the ice.

But yeah, that's a whole nother story.

So yeah, we love Lake Baikal.

It's very spooky.

So the Great Lakes have been a shipping behemoth for over a century.

We built the Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

And that kind of like let all these ships in from around the world.

So there's some 10,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

But Lake Superior, I think, has the deadliest reputation because this is kind of an interesting science reason.