The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Added 2021-06-29 10:16:00 +0000 UTCTwo things about this story stood out to me while researching, but I couldn't quite find a place for them in the video.
First, is that - like several other disasters I've covered - this one had a song written about it. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in 1976, just a year after the disaster. Here's a copy of it you can listen to on YouTube.
Second is a story that really struck me. According to this Wisconsin Public Radio piece, when the crew of the Arthur M Anderson learned that they were going back out into the storm to search for the Edmund Fitzgerald, one assistant cook went so far as to write and waterproof his final will. I suppose that gives some idea of how severe the storm really was!
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I hadn't noticed the lack of marine life, but now that you point it out it's quite striking. Makes me think of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which went the opposite way: it became an unintentional reef after its collapse!
Fascinating Horror
2021-07-06 19:46:48 +0000 UTCMakes me wonder if we'll ever know for certain. I always think that, surely as technology improves, it'll become possible to get more and more information from shipwrecks.
Fascinating Horror
2021-07-05 18:42:17 +0000 UTC
