The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan.

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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 ...

DULUTH, MINN — The water in Lake Superior sloshed back-and-forth like a bathtub between Minnesota and Michigan when a storm system caused a tidal-like phenomenon known as a seiche across the region ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a cargo full of ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm in 1975, killing all 29 crew members. Only a handful of people have ever visited the wreck, either by submersible or, in one ...

In late June, Lake Superior had a very big water fluctuation. This fluctuation was produced from a particular weather situation. On June 21 an instrument that measures lake levels recorded a 45 inch ...

Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination Ellen Wexler - Assistant ...

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, Winona’s present and past poets laureate, Ken McCullough and Jim Armstrong, will host an evening of song and ...