(PORT HURON) — A Great Lakes shipwreck that claimed 28 lives in 1966 is the subject of a documentary video that will be shown in Port Huron. “Graveyard of the Great Lakes” will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday at McMorran Theater. The video by Detroit Free Press filmmaker Eric Seals is about the November 29, 1966 sinking of the 603-foot freighter Daniel J. Morrell in Lake Huron off of Port Hope. All but one of the 29 crew members died. Former Times Herald chief photographer Ralph Polovich was the only photographer on the scene when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescued survivor Dennis Hale. He says covering the wreck of the Morrell stands out in his long career. Polovich says Hale, who died this past summer at age 75, called the Morrell a “rickety old tub.” Hale and three other men climbed into a raft. He was rescued after 38 hours. The others froze to death.
