Did anyone watch the webcast from the Whitefish Point Museum? Our local tv station did a special report on the Edmund Fitzgerald that included home movies, interviews with surviving relatives, including the captain of the Arthur Anderson. Most of the interviews were done in the 80's I think. At about 7:30 or 7:35 they switched over to alive broadcast from the Point. I was very moved by the ring of the ship's bell. I live in northern lower Michigan and have heard Gord's song hundreds of times, but this is the most emotional I have ever been about it. I wanted to be there.
One thing that I wondered about is, Did Gord's song bring more recognition to the Fitz than other shipwrecks? One of our news guys said that 30,000 lives have been lost in 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Did the Fitz have the most loss of life for one ship? Eveyone seems to know about the Fitz, and personally, I can't think of another wreck by name at this time. I'm just curious. Any thoughts?
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