DETROIT (WHTC-AM/FM, Aug. 28, 2025) – A group of swimmers accomplished on Wednesday what the Edmond Fitzgerald failed to do nearly five decades ago.
It took 33 days for nearly 70 persons to cover the 411-mile distance between Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior and the Detroit Yacht Club to honor the memory of the ill-fated iron ore carrier that sank in stormy weather on November 10, 1975. Marathon swimmer Jim Dreyer of Spring Lake helped organize the effort, and a special ceremony on Thursday at the Mariners’ Church in Detroit will symbolically cap the 17-stage excursion.
The swimmers were raising funds for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society to help preserve the Whitefish Point Light Station near the Upper Peninsula village of Paradise, which was not operational at the time the Edmond Fitzgerald sank.
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