It was a perfect fall day as two scuba divers descended on the James R. Bentley shipwreck in Lake Huron with the goal of ...

In 1967, it was finally sold for scrap and was to be towed to Europe. On Nov. 5, nearly 54 years to the day it ran aground on ...

With a cargo hold full of coal ... more than 100 historic shipwrecks in Lake Huron off the Michigan coast. It was the first marine sanctuary in the Great Lakes. Shipwrecks are available for ...

At least 87 people drowned in the Great Lakes this year, and more than half of the deaths happened in Lake Michigan, according to the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project.

Over the decades, the Great Lakes have seen many ship disasters in November. Here's what to know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, others.

The 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975, taking down its entire 29-member crew, according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The disaster even has a song dedicated to ...

The somber tradition remembered the more than 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks and thousands of sailors who have lost their lives. “I’m very patriotic. I’m very emotional when it comes to things ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 49 years since one of the most famous and deadly Great Lakes shipwrecks: the sinking of the ore-carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald. In 1958, it cost $8 ...

49 years ago on Sunday, one of the most "mysterious and controversial" of all shipwrecks on the Great Lakes took place 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. According to the Great Lakes ...

The 200-pound bell from the ship, recovered from the wreckage in 1995, is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Whitefish Point. Watch: Memorial Ceremony at Great Lakes Shipwreck ...