NEARLY 20 years ago, dur-
ing a raging storm on Nov. 10,
1975, one of the most famous
ship disasters in Great Lakes
history occurred.

_ By lan Noble
"News Reporter

‘The « wreck of

Fitzgerald, immortalized in song .

; by Canadian: folk singer Gordon
. Lightfoot, has rested at the bottom
of chilly. Lake Superior since that

day.

Recently, however, North

-Vancouver-based“ Hard Suits [nc.~

helped add another chapter to the
story. : :

The company, using its
Newtsuit technology. helped bring

~ up the ship’s bell, and replaced it
» with a new bell.

The new brass :replica has the
names of the 29 people who died

“on the. ship engraved on it.

‘the heart”

Bruce -Fuoco. the ' chief
Newtsuit pilot who also cut the

bell off the ship, said the -bell-rais-

ing operation “hit a litle closer to
after he researched the
mystical vessel and the operation;

‘Diving on such a well: recog-

nized wreck was a special thrill, he ,

» said.

: Photo submitted

Raising bell

° MEMBERS OF the Newtsuit team ‘welcome. the bell, ef the’
“Edmund |: Fitzgerald: after - it: -traveiled 142 metres (470: feet)

, Straight up from the bottom of Lake Superior. North Vancouver-
“based. Newtsuit pilot Bruce’ Fuoco released the bell from its ~.
_ watery ° grave. .under the
Geographic's high- definition television cameras. ;

intense ‘scrutiny | of National ~

Usually. on the rare occasions

he‘dives on archeological vessels,
the people involved and their direct

descendants are long gone. ;

In his work on the Edmund
Fitzgerald, Fuoco met inany of the
relatives. of ‘those: who’ perished.

“including their mothers, brothers
and children. .
“This is a: litle bit different.

There's some, meaning ‘there, he

told. the. News: of the gratifying

operation.

“It really was neat stuff.”

- Fuoco said it was also unusual
to be manoeuvre the Newitsuit in
deep fresh water.

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Unlike deep dives in the ocean,
where the waters teem with life,
Lake Supericr, with its clean water.
did not reveal even cone fish-to
Fuoco. - 1
Nothing grew on the wreck. and
the only life in the cold 151-metre

(500-foot) depths was freshwater’

shrimp, he said.

Fuoco and the Hard Suits team
began burning the bell off the
wreck July 3 using a rod that had
atip of 10.000°F. -.-

They then raised the bell the
next day, with the family niembers
of the deceased crew watching
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The bell-raising operation’ was k
sponsored by the. Great. Lake

Shipwreck Historical Society.“

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by’ National. Geographic , in ‘hig
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The Edmund Fitzgerald's: orig
nal bell was. presented. by: the
Canadian government to the: State

‘of Michigan, the families of: the

crew, and the historical society on
July 7: “

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