30 Years Since Edmund Fitgerald

I saw the same show and it made me believe that's what happened. That was
the closest plausible explanation that they could come up with as to why the
ship lays in two pieces, broken in the middle. I think that was also the
show that ended with a memorial to the crew and their families then they
ended all diving on the wreckage in their memory.

Jim

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Didn't they only recently discovered what acutally caused her to go
down? It guess they think that she had a couple hatches not secured and
gained water but that wouldn't have sunk her along. The documentry I
recently saw seemed to think it was bad luck of catching a wave on her
bow and stern at the same time while the middle of the ship was in a
"gully". In otherwords, the middle of the ship was out of water while
the front and back were lifted by giant waves. As a result, she snapped
in two from port to starboard right in the middle. Certainly the
increased weight in the middle due to the flooding hatches contributed
to the snap.

-Robert