Sixty eight swimmers will swim in a relay to finish the 411-mile journey the Edmund Fitzgerald never got to complete.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk 48 years ago on Nov. 10 during a storm on Lake Superior. Here's how its impact is still felt today across the Great Lakes region today.

Explore six intriguing theories behind the mysterious sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the most famous shipwrecks ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, captained by Ernest McSorley, finishes loading 26,116 tons of taconite in Superior, Wis., and departs for Detroit’s Zug Island.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an ore carrier that, when it was launched in June 1958, was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. Costing $8 million to build, the 729-foot-long ship was designed to ...

Fifty years after the tragic sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a team of 68 open water swimmers will take on a 411-mile relay swim to symbolically complete the freighter’s final voyage — one it ...

This underwater photo of the sunken SS Edmund Fitzgerald was taken by an unmanned submersible robot, as a research team investigates the wreck site 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Mich., on ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald is the largest ship sitting at the bottom of any of the Great Lakes. However, it's largely a mystery shrouded in darkness. We explore it through the eyes of Ric Mixter.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank Lake Superior nearly 47 years ago. A freighter that had been in service for 17 years, the ship went down on the night of November 10, 1975, ...

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was considered the largest and fastest Great Lakes ship. It set multiple records for the largest season-hauls. Built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk 48 years ago on Nov. 10 during a storm on Lake Superior. Here's how its impact is still felt today across the Great Lakes region today.