Edmund Fitzgerald - Gitche Gumee

Date 9-7-05

One of the people that dived the Fitz was Jacques Cousteau. His dive was short inpart due to battery problems with the sub. See a picture of the ship " Calypso" in the Detroit river upbound on it way to the Fitz.

September 24, 1980
Ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau’s vessel Calypso was
in the St. Lawrence Seaway making a .lm in conjunction
with the National Film Board of Canada. Calypso went to
the wreck site and, directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau,
conducted a brief submersible dive on the forward
section. The submersible SP350 was more widely known
as the ‘Diving Saucer’ (Soucoupe) although the Calypso
crew referred to her as ‘Denise.’ The 1,000-foot-rated
(305m), water jet-propelled vehicle was slightly over
eight feet (2.5m) in diameter and carried pilot and
passenger – Albert Falco and Colin Meunier, respectively
– on this half-hour dive. Jean-Michel Cousteau later said
that no conclusions could be reached on such a short
dive, but that Falco believed that the ship might well
have separated while on the surface.

The picture was taken with the Great Lakes Engineering Works in the background. This is the site where the Fitz was built. September 24, 1980. The Calypso explores the wreck.

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