"While I had been clearing my mask, the octopus had begun to drag the strobe, still attached to the camera and a second strobe, towards a cave at the base of the ledge. For more than five minutes we grappled. The octopus was so strong I couldn't pull the strobe free using force alone."

Thirty years later the Edmund Fitzgerald has lost little, if any, of its mystique. Immortalized in song by Canadian Gordon Lightfoot, the loss of this Great Lakes ore carrier is a story retold in haunting lyrics:

"And every man knew, as the Captain did, too, T'was the witch of November come stealing......
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times. For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald..."
In this exclusive feature, publisher Phil Nuytten recalls his unforgettable experience...

Imagine an underwater camera the size of a chest freezer, that weighs 1,400 pounds (635kg), requires two cameramen to operate, and yet shoots only three minutes of film at a time. Sounds absurd, doesn't it? But that's the reality of shooting IMAX 3D underwater and last September/October I had a front row seat on the action. It was my good fortune to work on the soon-to-be-released production - Deep Sea 3D - as part of the crew here on the British Columbia coast.

"Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if there were no sponges." Tarpon Springs celebrates a century submerged.