Short answer: Yes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was found shortly after her sinking. Context and details:

• The wreck was located by a U.S. Navy aircraft with a magnetic anomaly detector on November 14, 1975, about 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. It was subsequently confirmed as the Edmund Fitzgerald based on hull identification and other wreckage characteristics.

• The ship broke into two large pieces on the lakebed, with the bow section upright and the stern capsized, which supported the identification and shed light on the vessel’s final moments.

• Additional expeditions and investigations over the years have documented the wreck’s location, condition, and related artifacts (e.g., the bell recovered in 1995), reinforcing the historical record of the ship’s fate.

If you’d like, I can summarize the sequence of events from sinking to discovery in a concise timeline, or pull more specifics about the wreck’s condition and notable artifacts recovered.