Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

In the fall of 1913, a violent force was unleashed across the Great Lakes. More than a century later, it still goes by many names. All are deadly: The White Hurricane. The Big Blow. The Frozen Fury.

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald changed its route across Lake Superior to protect itself from the violent storm that was coming. It ...

GRAND MARAIS, MI -- Michigan maritime history is rich with stories of ships battling the Great Lakes. In many cases, the lakes won. Lake Superior notoriously was a heavy weight champ, its beaches ...