John.. there have been a number of documetaries on US TV about the Fitz as well as several books. I have one called 29 MISSING which isn't bad.

Unfortunately, there has been a political rift between two camps of historians who are bucking to be the "Go-To" man on info on The tragedy and lawsuits have flown back and forth. Most of that stuff has been settled now that the site of the wreck has been protected and classed as a No-Dive Zone. The families all pretty much side with one camp and the other side consists largely of potential profiteers masquerading as preservationists.

The History Channel has done two one-hour shows on The Fitz. One was a half-hour segement of HISTORIES MYSTERIES and the other was an hour long intensive reconstruction of the last voyage and wreck on DEAP SEA DETECTIVES. Both shows are available on DVD. The Learning Channel did a show as well, but that wasn't as thorough as the Deap Sea Detectives episode.


There are at least three other good threads here about the song and I'll try and post some links to them so new readers can get to them easily.