Posted on 08/07/2007 10:24:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Joe Rasch and his two daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, were looking for agates on the Lake Superior coastline last Friday. Instead, they found a piece of history -Â a life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald. Rasch admits he didn't realize what he found when he first saw the orange ring lying under a with pine tree that had fallen. Only when his daughter Emily read the words on the ring, it hit him. "It was pretty hard to read," Emily said. "I saw the Ed pretty good, then Fitz, so." They made the discovery near the Keweenau Peninsula, about 200 miles from where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in November 1975. Rasch said he gets chills whenever he carries the ring, and doesn't believe it was a coincidence. "It was time for it to be found," he told 24 Hour News 8, "for people to be reminded of all 29 people who went down and the power of Lake Superior. It wasn't that long ago." Rasch, an apple farmer... and his family plan to donate it to the museum, which already has one ring from the ship... on November 10, the 32nd anniversary of the Fitzgerald's sinking.
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Paddle to the Sea was probably the smallest...
I totally agree!!! One of my kids’ favorite books (mine too!) and one that constantly came to mind while reading this thread!!!
MI shipwreck ping!
Thanks, leilani! The Fitzgerald was a bit before my time as a maritime lawyer, but I do remember walking along the Duluth Canal in 1993, watching the Laker traffic. I was admiring an inbound boat as it approached the Aerial Lift bridge, then noticed the name - Arthur M Anderson. Chills ran down my spine as recognition set in...
thanks.
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Heh, I didn’t mean to be so cryptic, thought the Anderson had been mentioned upthread.
No movie that I know of - Bogart wasn’t available, and Affleck hadn’t been born yet. ;>)
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[They] May have broke drove deep and took water.
...to my ear, anyway.
Scientists “discovery” of rogue waves was delayed probably a century or so because they wouldn’t believe all the stories from seaman.
I was taught about rogue waves in the mid 60’s by experienced seaman at a maritime academy.
I’m from the LP originally, always wanted to go through that part of the US, say from Sault St. Marie to Duluth, across to Green Bay. I wasn’t aware of the welfare/enviro freakland aspect of things. Didn’t think the shiftless class liked cold weather.
I’d like to move up that way, but I hear more and more comments here on FR like yours, or news stories like the WI senate passing a socialized medicine measure recently.
Interesting book about it here:
George: “It eased into the ocean like an old man into a bathtub... No offense”
Clarence: We had to abandon ship.
George: Well, all vacations have to end eventually.
“The Whitefish radio beacon was out. The Fitzgerald might’ve been helped by radio equipment aboard an ocean ship that was in port at Whitewater. But that ship’s captain scoffed at the storm. He said, “This is just a lake,” and he sailed off.”
Just damn!
It stands on it’s own. We may not know much, but we know what we like.
No. You need a hearing aid. (grin)
One of my favorites.
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