The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," sank off Whitefish Point within 100 ...

With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water ... Stewart, who swam a mile (1.6 kilometers) to shore after his lifeboat capsized. For almost 132 years, the lake hid the wreckage.

With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water ... Stewart, who swam a mile to shore after his lifeboat capsized. For almost 132 years, the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers ...

The ship wasn’t seen again until diligent explorers with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found the wreckage off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It took members Darryl and Dan Ertel over two ...