THE SS EDMUND FITZGERALD: THE LAKE NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD

Episode 137 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald — the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, 729 feet long and carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore, which sank in a November storm on Lake Superior on November 10th, 1975, with all 29 crew members, no mayday call, and no explanation that has ever been definitively confirmed.This episode covers what Lake Superior's November storms look like, the last radio transmission from Captain McSorley at 7:10 PM saying "we are holding our own," the radar return that simply disappeared, the competing theories about why the ship sank so fast, and Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 song that rang the ship's bell into American memory.Twenty-nine men. No mayday. One radar sweep. Then nothing.#HistoryMystery #EdmundFitzgerald #LakeSuperior #Maritime #HistoryPodcast