The campers decided to watch the waves and headed toward the lighthouse. That’s when one wave swelled up and carried the ...

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.

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over diving her remains are lifted.

Short-period waves, sudden gales and freezing spray turn freshwater into a death trap on the Great Lakes—a phenomenon that brought the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald to the bottom.