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Welcome to Split Rock lighthouse, for the 40th annual Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial beacon lighting, marking the 50th anniversary of the ship's sinking.

I think the mystery is always going to be there.

It's the last major shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

Most recent and the big part of it is that all 29 of the crew went down.

There was nobody to tell stories.

There's, you know, a lot of theories on why the, the ship may have gone down.

I definitely think Gordon Lightfoots song has something to to play a part of the.

You know, it keeps the kind of the staying power with it.

I remember when it happened, 1975.

I was just out of high school then.

I just learned this year that the Edmund Fitzgerald happened in my lifetime.

And I, you know, I always thought of it as something that happened a long, long time ago.

And so it made it more real.

We went out in a gale and it just kept getting worse.

Seven something she called and said she was having trouble.

Well, she was 15 miles ahead of us and, by the time the morning came, that lake was as calm as calm could be.

You could never believe that it did what it did.

We will now muster the last watch of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

What does it mean to you to be back here after starting this ceremony so many years ago?

Well, of course, it means a lot to be back here.

I've, I did it for 33 years.

Started it on the 10th anniversary.

It continues not to just be for the Fitzgerald, but to be for for all the victims of the shipwrecks on on especially Lake Superior.

Mark a Thomas deckhand, the crew of the Fitz can not only stand for themselves, but can also stand for those other shipwrecks and those other folks that are lost, you know, in all of the Great Lakes.

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