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Posted by Joe V on Mon Nov 11 08:37:16 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by bingbong on Sun Nov 10 12:07:52 2019. I read this book:https://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Edmund-Fitzgerald-Frederic-Stonehouse/dp/0932212883 It sank in Canadian waters, is legally a burial ground, so it was eventually made illegal to have diving expeditions near it. But preserved bodies are visible, and one lies just outside the vessel. Crew was very every port city in the Great Lakes. They did get the bell to be made as part of a memorial. We had crappy weather forecasting back then with poor radar. The storm came up from Kansas very quickly and hit the Great Lakes. Another ship a half hour ahead of it got through and made it to a calm harbor, but this ship was in poor condition, listed to one side, and had leaks from hatches not bolted down properly, so it took on a lot of water much faster than it could be pumped out. Given the wave action, and the boat's up and down motion, in a down cycle, a wave eventually jack-knifed the rear of it it down further to the point of no return. It split in half. |
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