In terms of popular fascination, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with the loss of its entire 29-person crew. The shipwreck’s ‘human element’ keeps its story alive. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
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