PARADISE, MI (92 7 WHTC, Nov. 10, 2026) – Another story stemming from perhaps the most notable disaster on the waters of Lake Superior will be told on Tuesday.
That’s when the release of the film “We Finished Their Journey: The Story of the Edmond Fitzgerald Memorial Swim” will be held at various venues. Over more than a month’s span in the summer of 2025, 70 swimmers, in 17 different stages, symbolically went from Whitefish Bay, where the iron ore vessel went down in 1975, to Detroit, the destination of where the shipment of that doomed ship was supposed to be delivered.
Ultra-marathon swimmer Jim Dreyer of Spring Lake helped organize this 411-mile-long effort.
Proceeds from the swim went towards the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, who maintains a museum in the Upper Peninsula community of Paradise near where the Edmond Fitzgerald sank.
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