Swimming throughout Whitefish Bay to recollect the Edmund Fitzgerald

A swim is underway by means of the Great Lakes to commemorate the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The freighter went down in Lake Superior 50 years in the past this November.

And open water swimmers are going from the wreck web site all the best way all the way down to Belle Isle, within the Detroit River. The purpose of the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim is to symbolically full the route the vessel might need taken.

One of these swimmers is Lisa Kohler, from Traverse City, who swam the leg spanning Whitefish Bay, from Whitefish Point over to Iroquois Point.

Kohler was a part of a four-person workforce that took 30-minute shifts swimming in Lake Superior.

“The waters were kind of wild all day, and then at about 4:30 in the afternoon, the captain of the boat felt it was too much,” she stated. “He estimated waves of approximately 6 feet. So that shortened our day, and we picked up on Tuesday.”

The waters had been surprisingly heat, Kohler stated.

“It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she stated. “I thought about the mariners during our swim and the big body of water we were swimming in. We know about the Edmund Fitzgerald because of songs, but there are many shipwrecks and a lot of lives lost. It was a nice learning experience, for sure.”