🌊 ..Did you know 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
⚓️ ..Learn why some of Gordon Lightfoot’s famous song lyrics were wrong.
🎧 ..Discover some scintillating unknown facts about the story of the doomed ship..
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“I see the Fitzgerald as more than just a sunken ship. It represents the biggest and best that would come out of our Great Lakes but it also marked the end of a mecca that had lasted 200 years.” – Ric Mixter

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Millions of television viewers recognize Ric Mixter as a shipwreck researcher, diving over 100 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. He has produced over 30 programs for PBS and the Outdoor Channel, and appeared as a shipwreck expert on the History and Discovery Channels. Ric’s stories appear in books, magazines (including Michigan History Magazine) and in radio and TV news programs. He hosts the Shipwreck Podcast, and his YouTube videos have over 3 million views, covering shipwrecks in four of the Great Lakes and adventures in several foreign lands.

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**RESOURCES**
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald

Ric Mixter websites
https://www.lakefury.com/
https://www.shipwreckpodcast.com/

Ric’s book
Tattletale Sounds: The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations
https://shipwreckmuseum.com/product/tattletale-sounds-the-edmund-fitzgerald-investigations-book/
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**MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST**
Superior, Wisconsin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior,_Wisconsin

Singer/Songwriter Gordon Lightfoot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

Great Lakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes

Song: Lost on the Lady Elgin
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMxKF43bmTg
Lyrics: https://mnheritagesongbook.net/the-songs/texts-and-additional-notes-on-printed-songs/lost-on-the-lady-elgin/

PS Lady Elgin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lady_Elgin

Lake Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Michigan

SS William Clay Ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_William_Clay_Ford

Oglebay Norton of Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglebay_Norton_Corporation

SS Arthur B. Homer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arthur_B._Homer

SS Arthur M. Anderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arthur_M._Anderson

Captain Ernest M. McSorley
https://shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-journey/

Frederick Stonehouse
https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/experts/frederick-stonehouse/

Robert (Bob) J. Hemming’s book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Gales-November-Sinking-Edmund-Fitzgerald/dp/1882376331

Robert Ballard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard

SS Daniel J. Morrell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Daniel_J._Morrell

SS Carl D. Bradley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley

Chippewa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe===

SS Henry Steinbrenner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Henry_Steinbrenner

Novodoc
https://www.michiganshipwrecks.org/shipwrecks-2/shipwreck-categories/shipwrecks-found/novadoc
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**PODCAST CREDITS**
Kathy A. Smith, Host & Founder
Earth Dreams (Victoria Denyx), Producer, Composer & Virtual Artist
https://www.youtube.com/@EarthDreams-tvart?sub_confirmation=1

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