MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – It was Nov. 10, 1975, when an early winter storm complete with hurricane-force winds and dangerously-high waves sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald killing all 29 crew on board ...

How the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking inspired advances in storm navigation Lake Michigan waves splash against a breakwater at sunrise at 31st Street Beach in Chicago on Jan. 29, 2019. Zbigniew ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 49 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become its tragic final voyage. Once the largest ship ...

MICHIGAN, USA — It's been nearly half a century since the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, taking the lives of all 29 members of her crew. 49 years ago on Sunday ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI — It was 48 years ago that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her doomed final voyage. Once the largest ship on ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 marked a major turning point in the shipping industry. ... These conditions can ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk 48 years ago on Nov. 10 during a storm on Lake Superior. ... Reports of wind over 50 kts with gusts over 70 kts created waves up to 25 feet on Lake Superior.

The 729-foot ship, caught in treacherous winds and towering waves, plunged to a watery grave 500 feet deep. Photo of the ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 — 48 years ago. A 1995 dive to recover the ship's bell captured footage of the wreck 535 feet below Superior's surface. The ...

An artist's depiction of the the Edmund Fitzgerald's wreckage, sitting 530 feet deep in Lake Superior. ... "And wind was building from Thunder Bay Ontario waves that were three stories tall.

DETROIT - It's an evocative song that defies description: haunting yet comforting, wistful yet powerful, mythic yet real. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was among Gordon Lightfoot's greatest ...

The captain of another ship that was a few miles behind the Fitzgerald during the storm, the Arthur M. Anderson, recorded wind gusts reaching 70 knots (nearly 81 miles per hour) and waves of up to ...