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It's a sad story. It may be kind geeky, but there is lots of stuff to read on how Lake Superior will whip your ass...

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I was almost going to post a thread and my locomotive vibration

addled brain remebmered this one. 

So a respectful bump tu this thread.

 Now 40 years ago today.

 

 






-- Edited by Thunderwagon5000 on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 12:09:03 PM

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so they never found any bodies or any wreckage??

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slackaction wrote:

so they never found any bodies or any wreckage??

 They found the ship many years ago however Lake Superior never gives up her dead...



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Here is video with old home movies, research video and radio transmissions.

 



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Radio transmissions from Captain Bernie Cooper on the Arthur M. Anderson trailing the Fitz

 



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thanks troll for the video...got educated today............again

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slackaction wrote:

thanks troll for the video...got educated today............again

 Thanks Troll. Add me to the list.



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I mean you got to credit Gordon Lightfoot for somehow gaining so much information
about the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster like he saw it in his mind and sang a song that
tells the whole story...so much so that TV uses this song every time and tries to add
"video" to his lyrics.

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El Faro deserves a song, tu.

Notice the E - F is there, tu.



-- Edited by Snippy on Thursday 12th of November 2015 03:22:48 AM

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Very observant Mr Snippy. Seems the same set of circumstances where a ship should
have not have sailed.

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How time flies...It's 41 years now.


41st anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
POSTED 6:43 AM, NOVEMBER 10, 2016, BY BOB BRENZING

LAKE SUPERIOR 41 years ago Thursday, the Gales of November howled and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank into Lake Superior.

29 men died that evening.

The ship was loaded with 26 tons taconite pellets on the morning of November 9, 1975, in Superior, Wisconsin, with a final destination of Zug Island on the Detroit River. The National Weather Service issued Gale Warnings on that afternoon.

At 7:00 a.m. on November 10, the ship sent back a weather report saying the winds were 35 knots and there were ten-foot waves. Waves as high as 30 feet were reported by other ships throughout the day on November 10.

The last contact with the ship was made about 7:00 p.m., and it is estimated that it sank around 7:30 p.m. The wreck of the ship was officially identified in May of 1976.





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That cold water would be a brutal beginning to a quick demise.

The song is after all these years, still timeless.



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