Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin, at 2:15 p.m. on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. The last communication from the ship came at approximately 7:10 p.m Nov 10, when Anderson notified Fitzgerald of an upbound ship and asked how she was doing. She sank minutes later. No distress signal was received.
Fitzgerald sank so quickly, none of the crew had a chance to pray, or even scream. No bodies were ever located. It's true, that Lake Superior never gives up her dead.
in 1995, an underwater expedition salvaged the bell from Fitzgerald. Canadian engineer Phil Nuytten's atmospheric diving suit, known as the "Newtsuit," was used to retrieve the bell from the ship, replace it with a replica, and put a beer can in Fitzgerald 's pilothouse.
RIP to the Edmund Fitzgerald crew.