The waters of Lake Michigan are so crystal clear that you can see all of its secrets laid bare from the sky.

Despite how inviting the perfect blue water looks, don't be deceived, it's still only around 3 degrees Celsius.

One of the coast guard pilots, Charlie Wilson, told NPR that it's "Fairly common" to see a wreck from the sky, but "Not in the numbers we saw on that flight".

They've since shared their images on the US Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City Facebook page, calling the event "Shipwreck Sunday".

Some of the wrecks they spotted were well known, including the remains of the James McBride, photographed below, which sank in shallow water during a storm on 19 October 1857.

Lake-michigan-shipwrecks vert-172f028979b49270e3d2c5332e26dde2bcbd307d-s700-c85US Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City 11159957 451769294989741 2938430622155184893 nUS Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City Also in shallow water was the well known wreck of the Rising Sun, photographed in the top image, which went down in 1917 - thankfully all 32 people on board at the time were rescued.

These wrecks were all photographed near Sleeping Bear Point northeast along the shoreline to Leland, the US Coast Guard reports.

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