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 ...

Abby Hutson, Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research at the University of Michigan joined ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Captain Benjamin Trudell was the first captain at the Grand Marais Lifesaving station. One of Captain Trudell's most notable rescues was that of the steamer South Shore on the morning of November 23, ...