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With the hatch covers not secured (remember, the ship left port in clear weather and the storm blew up rather quickly), the waves breaking over the Edmund Fitzgerald saturated the cargo. As the cargo got heavier and heavier, the ship sank lower and lower.
SSEFO is dedicated to informing others about the ship and crew; the 1975 tragedy took the lives of 29 men: sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands, a loss affecting dozens of families and a countless number of friends and comrades of the shipping industry. S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald is lost, but not forgotten.