Do you know what happened to the Great Lakes Titanic? The Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, a wreck that claimed the lives of all 29 crew members. The iron ore pellets it carried (all ships are girls) were porous and therefore absorbed water. The National Weather Service said conditions were good when the Fitz began its journey through Superior, but soon a HUGE storm blew up around it. The Fitzgerald was at maximum capacity when 10-foot waves began to crash over the deck and the pellets began to absorb water. None of the crew knew what the problem was, since they couldn't see any water except the bubbling and swirling Superior. The Fitz was already low to the surface, getting lower as the sinkers got heavier with the water, and when a wave over 11 feet hit, it's not very surprising that it was submerged or sunk. In May 1976, a US Navy submarine found the unlucky freighter and took numerous photos of it. One cause of the sinking may have been the low pressure system moving toward the Great Lakes in the early hours of November 9, 1975 (which the NWS or Fitz completely ignored, apparently). By the time this system reached Lake Superior, the American Mogenic Society would call it a cyclone. Twenty-nine men were in the path of this storm, the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think you can understand what happened next when the storm hit. The Fitz came to rest 530 feet below the surface, broken in two. Authorities cannot decide whether the object broke up on the surface or whether it hit the bottom of Lake Superior and broke up there. And don't even get me started on the different and often conflicting theories. Also the ......middle of paper ......built in 1957 and 1958 in a shipyard in River Rouge. And who prepares portions of apple cake is Pam Johnson, 61, daughter of the ship's cook, remembered by Canadian singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The crowd eats his stories (and his cake). “That was one of his recipes,” she said. Additionally, at the request of family members of its crew, the Fitz's 200 lb. bronze bell was raised to the surface by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995. The Fitz was heading from Lake Superior, in Wisconsin, near Zug. Island on the Detroit River when it sank. The location of the wreck is 46°59.91′North, 85°06.61′West.Works Citedwww.ssefo.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald‎/ www.shipwreckmuseum.com › Wrecks of the Great Lakes‎ www.boatnerd. com/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html‎