I saw a documentary, a year or two ago, on Nat’l Geographic or the History Channel, theorizing why she split in two. It was very interesting.
“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!