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Edmund Fitzgerald sinking remains a Great Lakes mystery 40 years later
By Edmund DeMarche Published November 10, 2015 FoxNews.com


It was exactly 40 years ago Tuesday when "the winds of November came early" and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of Lake Superior, a disaster memorialized in book and song that remains mired in maritime mystery.

The 729-foot ore-carrier, called the "Queen of the Great Lakes" sank during a brutal storm on the eastern section of the lake, but the exact cause of its demise continues to elude experts and historians. From the plausible explanations offered in Gordon Lightfoot's haunting classic, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," to crackpot theories involving space aliens, theories abound as to what caused one of the 20th century's best-chronicled American shipwrecks.

"There were no survivors and no witnesses and we will never know, definitely, what happened on Nov. 10, 1975," Fredrick Stonehouse, the author of the 1982 book “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” told FoxNews.com. "We do know that the crew must have thought, 'We're hurt, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.'"

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Doc

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Thanks Jim.
Made me go look for a pic of the Edmund Fitzgerald ...and I found the route it was taking through the lakes. It was so close to Whitefish Bay / Mackanac Bridge that connects upper Michigan to the lower portion.
 

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buzzard767

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It might have been bad news for the freighter, but this boy was dancing on his toes after having been recently notified he was going back to his career job after being laid off nearly two years thanks to the Arab oil embargo.
 
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