Coast Files Podcast

Once an icon sailing the Great Lakes, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald now rests on the bottom of Lake Superior, gone but not forgotten. Immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot’s famous song, this ship still leaves many unanswered questions. In today’s episode, we examine what happened on that fateful day in November.

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2024, November 24). Gordon Lightfoot | Biography, songs, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gordon-Lightfoot

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Caitlin Doughty. (2020, January 25). The lake that never gives up her dead [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lg9HygEJc

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GLShipwreckSociety. (2022, June 8). The launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald, June 8th, 1958. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bN5wPVdacA

Photos:

Edmund Fitzgerald (1958) – WI Shipwrecks. (n.d.). https://wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/854?region=Index

Edmund Fitzgerald sank 45 years ago in Lake Superior – Duluth News Tribune | News, weather, and sports from Duluth, Minnesota. (2020, November 10). Duluth News Tribune. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/community/edmund-fitzgerald-sank-45-years-ago-in-lake-superior

Rich. (2024, April 17). The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs. https://shipwrecksandseadogs.com/blog/2023/11/13/the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/

https://www.times-online.com/news/wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-47-years-later/article_b7dd94fc-6b7e-11ed-b695-c32ee3da3b2f.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/comments/thj60g/one_of_the_first_images_taken_of_the_fitzgeralds/