Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Terrence Tysall was carrying everything he needed to stay alive on his back one September day in 1995 as he jumped into Lake ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” The Fitzgerald, ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members. The exact cause of the shipwreck remains unknown, and the wreck site is now a protected grave.

The Edmund Fitzgerald — a 729-foot-long freighter, once the largest on the Great Lakes — sank about 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan during a violent storm on Nov. 10, 1975. All 29 crew ...