Great Lakes Exploration

This Sunday marks the 49th anniversary of one of the most infamous shipwrecks in Great Lakes maritime history. There have been many theories about what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald sink in 1975. But through diving, interviews and new research, author and shipwreck enthusiast Ric Mixter says he's been able to gain a better idea of how the ship may have gone down.

In 1968, a plane carrying three people went missing in Lake Superior. On Thursday, an unmanned autonomous surface vessel was deployed in Houghton on a search to find it.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Society and Museum has reported the discovery of the Atlanta at the bottom of Lake Superior, which sank on May 4, 1891.

The team looking for the oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes says there’s a “high probability” they’ve found it.Steve Libert released a book this week…