- [Adam] Feeling the slight breeze on our face, the warm sun on our shoulders, the gentle sway of the boat as we cut through the waves, we pass the Cheboygan Pier Front Light and enter Lake Huron.

With Captain Jennifer at the helm, it is bound to be an enjoyable afternoon on a Great Lake.

- My little people boat was my first boat, and when I was three years old, and when I tell you I had to take that thing camping, I've always been obsessed with everything, water and boats, and as long as I can feel the water beneath me, I'm the happiest.

So why not combine all that and make it my job?

And by job, I mean I'm out there having fun every day.

Okay, we're gonna spin about of this boat around and we are headed out toward Lake Huron.

Prior to being a boat captain here and an owner operator of Nautical North Family Adventures, I was a school teacher and then a homeschooling mom.

And as part of being a homeschooling mom, I developed a business class for those three boys of mine.

And we put together a 38-page business plan for what we're doing here.

Pitched it to something called Invest Cheboygan, which is like Shark Tank, but for small towns, and got up there on stage, gave it her all and lost.

But two days later, I got a telephone call from a private investor in the audience.

He called me up and goes, "Hey kid, I think you got what it takes.

How much do you need for the loan?"

And the rest is history.

Here we are ending season six, having an absolute riot out there on the water.

- [Adam] The operation may seem modest, but rest assured a voyage that starts with stepping foot from solid ground to a boat with a glass bottom is safe.

- 100%.

So this boat was built for my company in 2018, and typically the manufacturer builds those boats for the Caribbean.

They worked in conjunction with Sector Sault Sainte Marie Coast Guard to design this boat specifically for my company for the Great Lakes.

Because we have colder water temperatures here, so if anything were to go wrong, even if all of the windows were to break, we'd still stay afloat.

We'd just come back to shore pretty slowly.

- [Adam] Captain Jennifer's passion and knowledge of the area and its waterways is evident as she interacts with her passengers, sharing the rich maritime heritage of Cheboygan and Lake Huron.

- Oftentimes when we're going over the ships, we will tell our story and the history of it a little bit, and as soon as we creep up over the keelson of the first shipwreck, usually we hear an audible gasp like it's so close to the glass, people love it.

You can still see the ribbing of the boat.

And just to know that those ships have been down there since 1891, unbelievably awesome.

- [Adam] Peering through the glass, a whole new world is revealed.

Captain Jennifer skillfully maneuvers the boat back and forth, allowing passengers the opportunity to take in every detail the water has preserved of the sunken ships.

- The first two wrecks that we go over are from 1891, and the first one that we go over is a cargo transportation vessel called the Genesee Chief.

The second one we see is the Leviathan, and that's the guardian angel of the Great Lakes, which was a wrecking and salvage tug.

We have full renditions of those model ship version, thanks to one of my clients who loved the trip so much.

He went home and made full model ships of those.

- So the Leviathan was a wrecking and salvage vessel, and it was the best known wrecking and salvage vessel operating on the Great Lakes during the 1800s.

- On our mid-afternoon tours, every day in the summertime in Duncan Bay, we go over the second shipwreck, the Leviathan, and we snorkel over it.

I had a 70-year-old woman, fully dressed, get so excited about it.

She's like, "Can I just jump in?"

I'm like, "Yeah, go ahead.

Let's do it."

Because the depth out there is about 10 feet, so it's relatively safe as long as you're happy and comfortable with the water.

We have pool noodles that we allow people.

We have snorkel vests and all the equipment, the fins and the mask and the snorkels.

- [Adam] The water was a bit too cold for us to get in on our trip, but passengers did get a chance to pilot the ship as we made our way back in.

The roughly 90-minute tour was engaging and informative, but most importantly, fun.

- I share my passion, and anybody that I hire also shares their passion for this area with the people.

So it's an intimate experience.

Ahoy!

- [Passengers] Ahoy!

- Other boats don't have the opportunity to provide.

So we can only seat 28 people, which is a blessing and a curse.

But the blessing is, we can memorize everyone's names before they leave the boat, and everybody leaves with a little something different.

So we can tailor each voyage to who we have on board.