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Could a Seaway Max design have doomed the Edmund Fitzgerald, competing theories of a Great Lakes tragedy

The Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking remains one of maritime's greatest mysteries, but her unusual Seaway Max hull design—squeezed to fit through canal locks—may have left her dangerously vulnerable to the ...
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How a shipwreck became a folk legend

On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished into a violent Lake Superior storm, taking 29 sailors with her and leaving a mystery that still isn’t fully solved. But the world remembers the ...