The story of how crews worked to salvage and raise the Edmund Fitzgerald's 200

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, killing 29 men who were aboard the ship.

The shipwreck is one of the most well-known in the world, yet so much is still unknown.

Every year at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, the original bell on the Edmund Fitzgerald is tolled 29 times in honor of the 29 men who perished.

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The bell is on permanent display inside the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point.

See the worker cutting the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1995 in the video below

According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, the Fitzgerald's 200-pound bronze bell was recovered on July 4, 1995, through a joint expedition between the society, C