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Seventeen Miles from Shelter: The Night the Fitzgerald Vanished
Seventeen Miles from Shelter: The Night the Fitzgerald Vanished
The lake swallowed a queen-class freighter just sixty minutes and seventeen miles from shelter - no distress call, no flare, no bodies recovered from a wreck sitting 530 feet down. How could a 729-foot ship, one hour from safe harbor, disappear so completely?
In this episode, we present the documented record of what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald on the night of November 9, 1975, what was missed by those positioned to help, and the competing explanations that remain unresolved - what really broke down in those final sixty…
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