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STAGE 1: Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Site
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STAGE 2: Whitefish Bay Crossing
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STAGE 3: Soo Locks
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STAGE 4: Upper St. Mary's River
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STAGE 5: Lower St. Mary's River
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STAGE 6: Lake Huron Crossing
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STAGE 7: 40-Mile Point - Presque Isle
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STAGE 8: Presque Isle - Thunder Bay Island
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STAGE 9: Thunder Bay Crossing
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STAGE 10: Sturgeon Point - Au Sable
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STAGE 11: Saginaw Bay Crossing
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STAGE 12: Grindstone City - Harbor Beach
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STAGE 13: Harbor Beach - Forester / Port Sanilac
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STAGE 14: Forester / Port Sanilac - Lexington
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STAGE 15: Lexington - Port Huron
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STAGE 16: St. Clair River
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STAGE 17: Lake St. Clair Crossing
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Description
The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim presents epic once-in-a-lifetime experiences for up to 68 swimmers to be part of history, play a role in a documentary film, and swim where no one has ever swum before and may never swim again.
The year 2025 marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald, bound for Detroit with over 26,000 tons of iron ore, went down in that horrific 1975 Lake Superior gale, taking 29 souls with her. Immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this has become the world's most famous shipwreck not named Titanic.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this historic maritime tragedy and to pay tribute to the 29 lost mariners, open water swimmers plan to carry on their legacy with a 17-stage, 411-mile relay swim from the point where the Edmund Fitzgerald lies in Lake Superior to Detroit. Participating swimmers will symbolically complete the intended route and cargo delivery that the ship was tragically unable to complete on that fateful night 50 years ago, by passing between them iron ore pellets from the same dock in Superior, Wisconsin, where the "Big Fitz" took on its last load.
Event Website
Additional event information can be found at http://www.EdmundFitzgeraldSwim.org.
Event Contact Info
Place
18335 N. Whitefish Point Road
Paradise, MI US 49768
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