Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in a matter of minutes. She was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. No mayday. No distress call. Just a captain's last words: "We are holding our own." The wreck inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous song, but the real story is stranger than the lyrics. Fifty years later, nobody agrees on exactly what caused the ship to go down, and the lake has never given up a single body. Plus, a recent legal saga involving a police department, a relic from the ship, and a $600,000 settlement continues to keep the story alive.
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