The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?

Thanks to an iconic ballad by Gordon Lightfoot, most people think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. The mysterious sinking ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a ...