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The Edmund Fitzgerald did not sink - Insurance Fraud, crisis actors...
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It's mostly Bullshit OP
I was there in Chippewa County MI on that day which was Nov 10th not the 9th. I remember it all too well as that storm almost killed me also.
That pdf article posted has so many mistakes in it I don't know where to go after giving the correct date.
But there were problems with the Fitz and they may have been known that those problems could have doomed her from making it through such a storm.
Personally I do think she bottomed out on the reef.
One thing I'll never forget is the calls that went out over the emergency frequencies at the Cloverland power plant office as I thawed out that early evening after my long walk to safety through that ice and snow Hurricane wind, it took weeks for my frost bit face to heal yet I was one of the lucky ones as 20+ hunters and fishermen also died that day Nov. 10th 1975 in that storm.
Quoting: Michael. Storm predictions in 1975 were in their infancy as well, this one caught everyone by surprise. Also the waves on the lakes in high winds are vastly different than the oceans. Waves are higher due to the shallow waters and after several hours waves are rebounding back in different directions from islands and shorelines. I saw a documentary showing the waves on superior and Michigan develop into an almost square checkerboard pattern where you can't point the bow against the oncoming waves. Some of the Fitzgeralds cargo hatches also dislodged and water came in. She bottomed out in 80 feet of water where she should not have been with her stern and the hull snapped flooding the ship. Sad story.
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