SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Museum Ship Valley Camp curator Paul Sabourin is a walking encyclopedia of maritime knowledge, but the question he gets most often is the one that's hardest to answer.

"I have three answers," said Sabourin about what he does when people wonder what caused the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. "I don't know, I don't know and I don't know."

Any museum related to North American maritime heritage will at some point be compelled to address the most famous disaster in Great Lakes history, but the Museum Ship Valley Camp has particularly close ties to the Edmund Fitzgerald.

"When you come here, you have to see the lifeboats," said Sabourin. "Lifeboat No. 2 was washed ashore at Mamainse Point, which is north of Sault Ste. Marie (in) Ontario, and lifeboat No. 1 was spotte

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