Photos: Edmund Fitzgerald at bottom of Lake Superior years after ...

• The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 — 48 years ago. 
• A 1995 dive to recover the ship's bell captured footage of the wreck 535 feet below Superior's surface. 
• The freighter lives on in popular culture thanks to Gordon Lightfoot's folk song about the ship. 

Loading Something is loading.

Thanks for signing up!

Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald — the eponymous ship memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 folk song — sank in a November gale on Lake Superior 48 years ago this month.

The Great Lakes freighter went down on November 10, 1975, amid blustering winds and powerful waves, killing all 29 people on board.

Nearly five decades later, the Fitzgerald remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in American history, thanks in large part to Lightfoot's six-minute song released just months after the ship sank, which detailed the vessel's final hours.

A dive to recover the ship's bell in 1995 captured footage of the wreck on the bottom of Lake Superior.