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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Is it too dangerous, because of unexploded munitions?
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No, no munitions. The
'SS Edmond Fitzgerald' was an ore carrier, iron ore to be more precise, on Lake Superior between the US and Canada. The biggest ship on the lake too. The year after she went down, Gordon Lightfoot wrote
this wonderful tribute to her and the men that went down with her, but most folks never realized that he was singing about a real ship and real event...
And the answer to my quiz question? The Canadian government decided that because no bodies were ever recovered from the disaster that the wreck be declared a shrine to their memory, and prohibited diving her to honor the dead. To this day, no one knows why the Fitz went down...
Somebody please give us a new question.
Stitchawl