The Edmund Fitzgerald - The Final Chapter: (Part 8 of 8)

In the final episode of our eight-part Edmund Fitzgerald series, we follow the story beyond the storm and beneath the surface of Lake Superior.Months after Fitzgerald disappeared on November 10, 1975, searchers finally located the massive freighter, broken into two sections, 530 feet below Lake Superior. Underwater cameras would soon reveal the wreck itself, but finding the ship did not solve the mystery of exactly why she sank.Nearly twenty years later, the families of the 29 men lost aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald fought to recover one last meaningful piece of the ship.But the story did not end there. The families continued fighting to have the wreck protected as a gravesite, ensuring that the men resting inside the Fitzgerald would no longer be disturbed.This is the story of the discovery of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the families who refused to let the men be forgotten, and the legacy that still lives on across the Great Lakes.