The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead

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This video was largely informed by "Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Michael Schumacher. Thank you to Mr. Schumacher for writing an insightful, exhaustively researched book.

***SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING***

Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Schumacher, Michael. Bloomsbury USA, 2008.

"Photos in Book on Shipwreck Upset Families of the Victims"
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/us/photos-in-book-on-shipwreck-upset-families-of-the-victims.html

"Superior keeps its shipwrecks fresh Preservation: In the cold, almost sterile water at the bottom of the Great Lake, divers find the remains of marine disasters."
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-05-12-1996133022-story.html

"Lake Superior Holds Onto Her Dead ... and Her Toxaphene"
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/newsletter/2007/02/lake_superior_holds_onto_her_dead_and_her_toxaphene.html

"The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
http://content-static.detroitnews.com/projects/fitzgerald/storymap.htm

"SS Kamloops"
http://iri.forest.mtu.edu/Shipwrecks/Pages/Kamloops.htm

"Body is Spotted Near Wreckage of the Fitzgerald"
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-28-mn-20757-story.html

"Worries About Intruders at Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald"
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/us/worries-about-intruders-at-wreck-of-edmund-fitzgerald.html