The Edmund Fitzgerald

Today is the anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. There is a site "dedicated to informing others". The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has a section of their site devoted to this boat:

The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic.

The cause of the wreck has been a controversial subject from the beginning, and this article reports a new documentary exploring the latest research.

Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

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