This fall will mark 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and to honor the 29 crew members who perished that night, local swimmers will swim over 400 miles – starting from where the ship sank in Lake Superior all the way down to Belle Isle in Detroit.
“It’s the world’s most famous shipwreck not named Titanic,” said Jim Dreyer, Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim Team Organizer.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was carrying over 26,000 tons of iron ore and sank to the bottom of Lake Superior on a stormy night on November 10, 1975…