With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.

Short-period waves, sudden gales and freezing spray turn freshwater into a death trap on the Great Lakes—a phenomenon that brought the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald to the bottom.

In the words of Gordon Lightfoot, “The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay if they’d put 15 more miles behind ...

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

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, sank during a Lake Superior storm on Nov. 10, 1975, ...

The loss of the Fitzgerald left people stunned. The tragedy spurred new safety measures and change among shipping companies, ...

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes, ...

Rix Mixter, who is one of few divers to visit the Edmund Fitzgerald remains, discussed the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck ...

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

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

Subtitled “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” the book takes a deep dive into factors that caused the famous wreck.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of the thousands of ships ...