47 years ago on November 10th, 1975, the American Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm.
Going down with her was the entire crew of 29 men.
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about the sinking that has captivated the minds and hearts of many and kept its story alive for the last 4 and a half decades.
In the next three days after the tragedy, the Coast Guard cutter Woodrush located two large pieces of wreckage in the same area in about 535 feet of water.
A Navy underwater recovery vehicle photographed the wreckage the following May.
When launched on June 7th, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes and she remains the largest to have gone to her final resting place there.
