No the Fitzgerald still rests on the bottom of Lake Superior. The location of the wreck was found 4 days after the sinking, on November 14, 1975.
The United States Navy photographed the wreck in May of 1976, with the aid of an unmanned submersible.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald was carrying a full load of taconite iron ore pellets.
The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk on November 10, 1975 and was immortalised in a song by Gordon Lightfoot, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, killing 29 men.
Ernest M. McSorley
The Steamship, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, was a freight carrier which sank in Lake Superior on 10 November 1975. Up to today theories abound but no definitive cause for the sinking has been established.