How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald changed shipping safety on the Great Lakes

Fifty-one years after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank with 29 crew members aboard, the U.S. Coast Guard says improved rules and technology have helped prevent another Great Lakes freighter sinking. The ship went down in a storm in 1975, about 20 miles from Whitefish Point. Coast Guard officials and Split Rock Lighthouse staff reflected on the tragedy’s lasting influence on shipping safety in an interview with Fox 21 News.