The Brief

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on the Canadian side of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. There have been six diving expeditions to the wreck site. The most recent dives in 1994 and 1995 produced remarkable images and video of the ship.

The backstory:

There have been six diving expeditions to the Edmund Fitzgerald:

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The U.S. Coast Guard conducted the first dives in 1976 as part of its investigation into the ship’s sinking. The Coast Guard used an unmanned Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle (CURV) that provided the first rudimentary images of the shipwreck.

Ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, the son of Jacque Cousteau, became the person to lay eyes on the ship in 1980.

"The ship was amazingly beautiful because it's deep and cold and n

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