Current Events > So I'm reading about Edmund Fitzgerald, the ship that sank in 1975...

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...and I'm just a little puzzled, but also very intrigued by the fact that no definite cause for its sinking has ever been made. The ship sank in a heavy a storm, with all hands lost, and is in two parts. As no distress call was sent and no lifeboats were launched, the sinking must've been very sudden and quick. The bow sits upright, but the stern rests upside down a few hundred feet away, at an almost perpendicular angle relative to the bow. If I were a researcher on the cause of the sinking, I'd look at how the metal's bent at the separation point, as that can tell how the two sections came apart.

Personally, I think the ship overflexed in the rough weather, causing a catastrophic disintegration of the keel in the midsection. The superstructure couldn't support the weight of the bow and it sagged into the waves, flooding the bridge in a matter of seconds. The inundated bow rolled as it sank, capsizing the stern while also twisting the sections apart.

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According to the song, a witch did it.

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Saw this video about Lake Superior a few weeks ago. Not solely about the Fitzgerald sinking, but a good amount of info on it specifically.

https://youtu.be/u0Lg9HygEJc
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You could never get me on a boat. Putting way too much trust that the "engineers" who designed them know what they're doing.
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lilORANG posted...

You could never get me on a boat. Putting way too much trust that the "engineers" who designed them know what they're doing.

Cool story bro

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Not saying aliens but....

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Saw this video about Lake Superior a few weeks ago. Not solely about the Fitzgerald sinking, but a good amount of info on it specifically.

https://youtu.be/u0Lg9HygEJc

That was a long episode! Curiously, it did feature a short CGI snippet that closely matches how I visualized the ship going down. The stern standing vertically is perhaps hard to believe and everything seems to happen in five seconds, though I suppose the animation is simply exaggerated.

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Your explanation seems likely to me, TC.

Sometimes water and rough weather are simply enough to break a ship. I believe something like this happened recently, like last summer? Bourbon Rhode incident.

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MS Estonia.

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Foppe posted...

MS Estonia.

I've read a lot about that. The majority never escaped the ship. I don't like to think about how they met their end.

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Thompson posted...

I've read a lot about that. The majority never escaped the ship. I don't like to think about how they met their end.

I remember where I was when it happened, I had been sleeping over at my cousins place.

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Great Gordon Lightfoot song

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Good beer.

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Gordon Lightfoot explained this event in EXHAUSTIVE detail so I'd suggest checking in with him.

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