It's an event that's a part of Great Lakes lore. On November 10, 1975, The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the biggest, fastest, and most powerful iron ore carriers at the time, sank in a fierce storm on Lake Superior. All 29 crew members went down with the ship. MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Captain Dudley Paquette, the last living captain who sailed on Lake Superior during the infamous storm.

Paquette says it was a nice morning, as he left the ore docks in Superior, Wisconsin about an hour after the Fitzgerald left from the same dock.

The severe winter storm on November 10-11, 1975, had 71 mph winds that created 12 to 15 ft waves on Lake Superior.