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

Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley ...

The 16,000 square-foot museum is memorializing the Nov. 10, 1975, tragedy of the Fitzgerald with a weekend of events.

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.

There are an estimated 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks lining the sea floor. In June 2025, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old wreck in Turkey.

Every November, folks at the Minnesota Historical Society commemorate the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking with a big to-do on ...

In the brutal winter of 1941-42, nearly 100,000 German troops, including hardened SS units and Scandinavian volunteers, were encircled by Soviet forces in the Demyansk Pocket. Facing freezing ...

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers ...

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

With the 50th anniversary of one of the Great Lakes’ most storied shipwrecks approaching, maritime historian Ric Mixter visited Corunna to share his firsthand perspective.

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great ...

A year of reporting and research went into the News Tribune's five-episode podcast, "Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Years Below." ...