50 years later: Mid-Michigan man recounts Edmund Fitzgerald response

Tony Hall was 19 and a seaman in the Coast Guard when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

GRATIOT COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) – Fifty years ago Monday, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank in the waters of Lake Superior near Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula during a fierce storm.
The 29 crew members on board all died. Five decades later, investigators have not determined a conclusive cause for the sinking.