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.

In this video, we investigate the final voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, from her struggle through a brutal Lake Superior storm to the moment she vanished from radar. Using wreck surveys, design ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Mid-Michigan marks 50 years since the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank on Lake Superior in November of 1975. The ship battled the rough waters of Lake Superior as ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned ...