Disappeared

All Capt. Donald Erickson saw on that cruel November night on Lake Superior 30 years ago were two ducks tossed about in the waves.

Battered by hurricane-force winds, the skipper and his crew frantically searched for the Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the mightiest ships of the day.

Known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" -- and thought to be indestructible -- the 729-foot ore-carrier mysteriously disappeared from radar during a blinding snow squall with no cry for help.