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The mighty Fitz is the Great Lakes largest shipwreck, resting in two major pieces on the bottom of Lake Superior, its entire crew of 29 simply vanished into the waves around seven that evening. Shipwreck historian Ric Mixter is one of only a handful of people who have visited the wreck personally, diving 550 feet down in a tiny submarine to explore the site for over an hour. This was actually the beginning of over 20 years of research for Mixter, who has collected one of the largest film archives of Fitzgerald related material.
Ric’s lecture includes exclusive footage of the building of the ship near Detroit, along with interviews from the men who worked at the shipyard. When Fitzgerald splashed into the Detroit River it was the largest object ever dropped into freshwater, over 729 feet in length.
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