Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

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.

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.

There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes. According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan, there are over 6,000 shipwrecks in the…