As the Edmund Fitzgerald battled Lake Superior's fury, John Lufkins was fighting to save his family from the same violent ...

Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck, which is now designated a protected grave site. That leaves ...

Fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, experts and historians are still debating what caused the ship ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on the Canadian side of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. There have been six diving expeditions to the wreck site. The most recent dives in 1994 and 1995 produced remarkable ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over ...

David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy. His first assignment: To board the Edmund Fitzgerald. One sailor’s story ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, TV anchor Dennis Anderson was preparing for the 10 p.m. news. John Crowley was at a Duluth bar with some Coast Guard shipmates. Their lives were about to change forever.

The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is coming up on 50 years and local historians are looking for one of the last radios to be in contact with the ill-fated voyage. A 1974 Coast Guard radio made the final ...

The National Museum of the Great Lakes is hosting a weekend of events to honor the 29 crew members lost on the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

From dining on authentic cuisine served on the ill-fated freighter to a solemn laying of wreaths on the water, the Detroit Historical Society is hosting a weekend of events to honor the 29 mariners ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald had made the journey over 50 times that year and its final voyage started out like any other journey.