Do you know what happened to The Titanic of the Great Lakes? The Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, a wreck that took the lives of all 29 crew members. The iron ore pellets that she (all ships are girls) was carrying were porous, so they absorbed water. The National Weather Service said conditions were good when the Fitz set out on her journey across Superior, but soon a HUGE storm blew up around her. The Fitzgerald was at maximum capacity when 10 foot waves started washing over the deck, and the pellets began to absorb the water. None of the crew knew what the big deal was, since they couldn’t see any water, aside from the seething and swirling Superior. The Fitz was already low on the surface, getting lower as the pellets got heavier with water, and when an 11+ foot wave hit, it`s no great surprise that she was swamped, or she sank.
In May of 1976 a U.S. Navy submarine found the unlucky freighter and took many pictures of it. A cause of the sinking may have been the low-pressure system moving towards the Great Lakes in the wee hours of November 9th, 1975 (Which the N.W.S. or the Fitz completely ignored, apparently). By the time this system reached Lake Superior it would be called a cyclone by the American Meteorological Society. Twenty-nine men stood in the path of this storm, the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Think you can figure out what happened next, when the storm hit.
The Fitz came to rest 530 feet under the surface, broken in two. Authorities can’t decide on whether or not it broke on the surface, or if it slammed into the floor of Lake Superior and broke there. And don’t even get me started on the different and often conflicting theories. Also the ...
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...uilt in 1957 and 1958 at a River Rouge shipyard. And putting out servings of apple cake is Pam Johnson, age 61, daughter of the ship’s cook remembered in song by the Canadian singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, in his song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The crowd eats up her stories (and her cake). “This was one of his recipes,” she says. Also, at the request of the family members of her crew, the Fitz’s 200 lb. bronze bell was lifted back to the surface by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995.
The Fitz was headed from Lake Superior, Wisconsin to Zug Island on the Detroit River when it sank. The location of the wreck is 46°59.91′North, 85°06.61′West.
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www.ssefo.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald/ www.shipwreckmuseum.com › Great Lakes Shipwrecks www.boatnerd.com/ cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html
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Smithsonian Channel, "The Titanic of the Great Lakes." Last modified 2013. Accessed April 10, 2014. http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/series/798/dive-detectives/137519/edmund-fitzgerald
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