This fall will mark 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and a relay swim will be held to commemorate the loss.
68 swimmers will be part of a 411 mile relay swim from above the shipwreck in Lake Superior to Detroit, where the ship was headed. Event director Jim Dreyer, a marathon swimmer called the Shark, says they aim to symbolically complete the Edmund Fitzgerald’s final journey as a tribute to those lost.
“We’re actually delivering iron ore pellets to Mayor Mike Duggan from the same dock in Superior, Wisconsin where the Edmund Fitzgerald took on its last load,” Dreyer said. “Symbolically, we are finishing the Edmund Fitzgerald’s tragic journey 50 years later as a way to memorialize the 29 men who died.”
The swim will begin on July 26 and it will be the subject of a documentary called The Legend Lives On.
