David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy. His first assignment: To board the Edmund Fitzgerald. One sailor’s story ...

From sudden storms and engine fires to mysterious disappearances and full-blown mutinies, these true cruise ship disasters reveal just how quickly paradise at sea can turn into a ... off the coast of ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over diving her remains are lifted.

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

Jules Verne’s 1870 novel *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* features the state-of-the-art submarine Nautilus. Built by ...

Jules Verne’s 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' gave science fiction its soul, turning curiosity into courage and ...