At 4:10pm the captain made contact again saying, "We are holding our own". Nothing more was ever heard from him or the 29 other crew. A search found some smashed lifeboats, life jackets and debris. The following year, the wreck itself was found and they discovered it had split in two.

There are theories about what happened – maybe the hatches were improperly closed, or it hit a rock. But the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalised in song, remains a mystery to this day.

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