When the 729-foot-long SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975, it took its entire 29-member crew with it. The men — sons, brothers, fathers, husbands and friends — were connected to dozens ...

In a matter of weeks, Ann Arbor resident Blake Andrews and three other people will work as a team to swim a distance most swimmers would never consider ― 32.4 miles across the Saginaw Bay in Lake ...

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What caused the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter to sink amid a violent storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing its 29 crew members, remains a point of debate and mystery a half-century later.

PARADISE, MICHIGAN — Whitefish Point, also known as the Shipwreck Coast around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes to the sailors who must sneak past it to enter ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members. The exact cause of the shipwreck remains unknown, and the wreck site is now a protected grave.

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. "We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...