Weather forecasts from 1975 underestimated the intensity of the November storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald. Though more intense November storms have occurred since, improvements in forecasting and ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan.
No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...
DULUTH, MINN — The water in Lake Superior sloshed back-and-forth like a bathtub between Minnesota and Michigan when a storm system caused a tidal-like phenomenon known as a seiche across the region ...