The S.S Edmund Fitzgerald. A huge cargo ship, But on November 10,1975 their voyage did not go so well. They were traveling along the Superior when their was a reported leak. Captain McSorely said that this was the worst storm he had ever seen and they were taking in water. Two of the three ballast tanks were working. The 29 people on the ship died. The ship now lays in 530 feet of water broken in half.

But the bright side of this disaster was it taught us to be more careful on boats and to be prepared for storm or any disaster like that on a boat.

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