A question about the Edmund Fitzgerald?

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I grew up in northern-lower Michigan, learning early on the history of the ill-fated ore freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald!. For those who do not know her history, she went down in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975 and all 29 hands perished!.

I am now working on writing a persuasive essay for my college Written Communications class and I need some facts about the controversial topic of bringing up the wreck!. In 1995 the original ship's bell was recovered and replaced with a replica on which all 29 names were engraved as sort of a marker and memorial!. To me bringing up the wreck would be the equivalent of digging up a grave!.

Can anyone give me any information regarding this subject!? Anyone out there who remembers when she sunk, do you have an opinion!?

This will be written in MLA format so I need the sources you are getting information from if it isn't your own head!. Please help!.

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The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes!. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic!. Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot inspired popular interest in this vessel with his 1976 ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald!."

The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan!. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum!. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) has conducted three underwater expeditions to the wreck, 1989, 1994, and 1995!.

At the request of family members surviving her crew, Fitzgerald's 200 lb!. bronze bell was recovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995!. This expedition was conducted jointly with the National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, Sony Corporation, and Sault Ste!. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians!. The bell is now on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to her lost crew!.

Taken directly from the great lakes shipwreck page listed below!.

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