Fifty Years Later: Remembering the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a massive Great Lakes freighter, in 1975 inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad and led to improved maritime safety standards, with no major shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the past 50 years.
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