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It is traditional that 'Lake Superior seldom gives up her dead.'" [17] All 17 crewmen of Myron drowned or froze to death in Whitefish Bay. [6] All were recovered wearing life jackets and covered with ice. [13] A tug owned by Frank Weston found a boat load of frozen crewmen in Whitefish Bay several days after the sinking. [6]
Arguably the best known use of the phrase is from Gordon Lightfoot's folk song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald": "'Twas the witch of November come stealin'" and "Superior, they said, never gives up her dead / When the gales of November come early" [10]
A fact from SS Myron appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 October 2009 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that when the steamer SS Myron (pictured) sank in 1919, she defied the adage that “Lake Superior seldom gives up her dead” when 17 of her crew were found frozen to death wearing their lifejackets?
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Lightfoot sings that "The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead". [47] This is because of the unusually cold water, under 36 °F (2 °C) on average around 1970. [ 35 ] Normally, bacteria decaying a sunken body will bloat it with gas, causing it to float to the surface after a few days.
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