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When a Giant Vanished: The Edmund Fitzgerald's Silent Night
When a Giant Vanished: The Edmund Fitzgerald's Silent Night
A freighter radioed "We are holding our own" at 7:10 PM on November 10, 1975-and ten minutes later the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from every radar screen; no distress call, no surface wreckage, no survivors. How could the largest vessel on the Great Lakes sink in a single sweep of radar and leave not one body recovered from 530 feet of water?
In this episode, we tell what happened before, during and after the Fitzgerald’s final voyage, tracing the ship’s troubled launch, its service record, the crew aboard, and the gaps in the…
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