The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles ...
Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes ...
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald still hits close to home in Wisconsin. Half a century later, the legacy lives on through memorials, museum exhibits, ...
Abby Hutson, Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research at the University of Michigan joined ...
Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is now designated a protected grave site. That leaves many questions unanswered.
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished into a violent Lake Superior storm, taking 29 sailors with her and ...
FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and ...
In 1994, Ric Mixter spent nearly two hours on the bottom of Lake Superior. His dive revealed torn steel, spilled ore and clues to the freighter’s fate.
No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...