In 1994, Ric Mixter spent nearly two hours on the bottom of Lake Superior. His dive revealed torn steel, spilled ore and ...

A Great Lakes historian believes another expedition to the wreckage with advanced technology could find out why the ship sank ...

Fifty years after its sinking on Lake Superior, the iron-ore ship remains a fascination among guys. There’s good reason for ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.

Outside of a handful of research expeditions and one notable scuba dive, the Edmund Fitzgerald has sat on the lakebed virtually undisturbed ever since it sunk in 1975.

When it was clear the Fitzgerald had disappeared, the question became: Who would brave the storm to look for the crew?