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Old 11-08-2019, 3:17pm   #1
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Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin, at 2:15 p.m. on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. The last communication from the ship came at approximately 7:10 p.m Nov 10, when Anderson notified Fitzgerald of an upbound ship and asked how she was doing. She sank minutes later. No distress signal was received.

Fitzgerald sank so quickly, none of the crew had a chance to pray, or even scream. No bodies were ever located. It's true, that Lake Superior never gives up her dead.

in 1995, an underwater expedition salvaged the bell from Fitzgerald. Canadian engineer Phil Nuytten's atmospheric diving suit, known as the "Newtsuit," was used to retrieve the bell from the ship, replace it with a replica, and put a beer can in Fitzgerald '​s pilothouse.



RIP to the Edmund Fitzgerald crew.
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I believe the bell is on display in a museum on whitefish point
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
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Growing up on Lake Michigan and my Grandfather and GGF were fishermen and merchant marines, this one always hit close to home.

It was dinner table conversation growing up in the 70s as it just happened.

Gord's song about it is haunting as well. Got to see him perform it live in Buffalo in the 90s.

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I remember well when that happen. A sad day. I also have seen Gordon sing that haunting song in concert.
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I remember well when that happen. A sad day. I also have seen Gordon sing that haunting song in concert.
From what I have read GL makes no money off of that song. He did it as a tribute!--
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discussed in the past, but still interesting:

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the Three Sisters waves:

A group of three rogue waves, often called "three sisters," was reported in the vicinity of Fitzgerald at the time she sank. The "three sisters" phenomenon is said to occur on Lake Superior as a result of a sequence of three rogue waves forming that are one-third larger than normal waves. When the first wave hits a ship's deck, before its water drains away the second wave strikes. The third incoming wave adds to the two accumulated backwashes, suddenly overloading the deck with tons of water.

Captain Cooper of Anderson reported that his ship was "hit by two 30 to 35 foot seas about 6:30 p.m., one burying the aft cabins and damaging a lifeboat by pushing it right down onto the saddle. The second wave of this size, perhaps 35 foot, came over the bridge deck." Cooper went on to say that these two waves, possibly followed by a third, continued in the direction of Fitzgerald and would have struck about the time she sank. This theory postulates that the "three sisters" compounded the twin problems of Fitzgerald '​s known list and her slower speed in heavy seas that already allowed water to remain on her deck for longer than usual.
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I have seen a few documentaries on that wreck, and some of the speculation was that the waves mentioned put the boat in a position where the front and aft ends were supported by the water, but the majority of the hull was "out" of the water and simply snapped in half. It would certainly explain why there was no distress call.
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