First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

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.

Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point is home to the only item removed from the Edmund Fitzgerald.

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a ...

A team of researchers accomplished another impressive discovery during its ongoing excavation of the famous Antikythera Shipwreck. According to Huffington Post, over 60 priceless artifacts were pulled ...

Five people were killed and one injured in four vehicle crashes on Arkansas roads from Tuesday through Thursday, according to preliminary police reports. Forrest Williams, 75, of Texarkana was killed ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include: -- Poet Virgil in 70 B.C. -- U.S. first lady Edith Wilson in 1872 -- Writer P.G. Wodehouse in 1881 -- Writer Mario ...

The rodent-shaped sidewalk impression has become a beloved local attraction. Turns out Chicago's famous "rat hole" was squirrelly all along. A new study has determined that the famous full-body ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost Endurance shipwreck has been discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. And while this isn’t a discovery from the ancient world, it packs such a historically ...