Do you know what happened to the Titanic of the Great Lakes? The Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, a wreck that killed all 29 crew members. The iron ore pellets that she (all ships are girls) carried were porous, so they absorbed water. The National Weather Service said conditions were good when Fitz began her journey through Superior, but a HUGE storm soon developed around her. The Fitzgerald was at maximum capacity when 10-foot waves began pouring onto the deck and the pellets began absorbing the water. None of the crew knew what the big deal was, since they could see no water except the churning, swirling Superior. The Fitz was already low on the surface, sinking as the pellets got heavier with the water, and when an 11-foot-plus wave hit, it's no big surprise that it was submerged or sank. the submarine found the unfortunate merchantman and took many photos of it. One cause of the sinking may have been the low-pressure system moving toward the Great Lakes in the early hours of November 9, 1975 (which the NWS or Fitz completely ignored, it seems). When this system reached Lake Superior, it would be called a cyclone by the American Meteorological Society. Twenty-nine men were in the path of this storm, the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think I can imagine what happened next, when the storm hit. The Fitz stopped 530 feet below the surface, broken in two. Authorities can't decide whether or not it broke up on the surface, or whether it crashed to the bottom of Lake Superior and broke up there. And don't even get me started on the different and often conflicting theories. Also the... middle of paper... built in 1957 and 1958 at a River Rouge shipyard. Serving portions of apple pie is Pam Johnson, 61 years old, daughter of the ship's cook remembered in a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, in his song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The crowd devours his stories (and his cake). “This was one of his recipes,” he says. Also, at the request of her crew's family members, the Fitz's 200-pound bronze bell was brought to the surface by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995. The Fitz was headed from Lake Superior, Wisconsin, to Zug. Island on the Detroit River when it sank. The location of the wreck is 46°59.91′North, 85°06.61′West.Works Citedwww.ssefo.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald‎/ www.shipwreckmuseum.com › Great Lakes Shipwrecks‎ www.boatnerd. com/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html‎