Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

Here to tell us more is Corey Adkins.

Content Communications Director at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Whitefish Point, Michigan.

Hi, Corey.

Welcome to That's Terrible.

The swim took over a month to complete, and swimmers encountered wind, rain, lightning, and other harsh conditions, and some sustained injuries.

The film is a project by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and Big Fin Pictures, directed by Corey Atkins.

The film documents the various stories of dozens of participants.

Proceeds from the swim went toward maintaining the light tower at Whitefish Point, home to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, where the Edmund Fitzgerald's Bell is displayed.

And the key was of the 29 men on that ship that night, I got to 14 of the families.

And I got to them through Bruce Lynn, who's the director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

We know them well and host them for every anniversary.

He basically lent me his credibility and his trust with them.

You'd have to ask them individually.

I would say on the grand scale, yes, for a few reasons.

One, they brought the bell up from the ship itself, and that is now on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

They all got together as families.

Obviously.

Paddle along a water trail, dive into history at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, tour an iron or copper mine, and visit a mining ghost town.

There's gonna be links for all of this stuff in show notes.

But the one thing that really captured my attention is a boat ride on the freshwater spring called Kitch-iti-Kipi.