40 years ago today, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with her entire crew of 29 men. Each year, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum remembers those men in a ceremony at Whitefish Point.
The above video is courtesy Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society.
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