On November 10, 1975, a storm passed over Lake Superior. Initially thought to be a minor weather disturbance, it soon turned into a gale, complete with 100-knot winds, 35-foot rogue waves, and heavy snow. When the ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the worst of the weather, she made for Whitefish Bay, Michigan, before vanishing off radar without a single distress call.  On this episode, we’re discussing the unique dangers of Great Lakes shipping, as well as taconite ore, Gordon Lightfoot, and one of the strangest shipwrecks we’ve ever come across.

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Sources for this episode include:

"Radio Transmissions on the Night of the Edmund Fitzgerald's Sinking" by M. Brush for Michigan Radio / National Public Radio, 2015

 "Edmund Fitzgerald" page on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum website 

"The Cruelest Month" by J. R. Gaines for Newsweek Magazine, 1975

“29 Missing”, by Andrew Kantar, 1998