[dawn53]

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.

[ken5050]

I caught that one also. FYI...there's a new theory, that a "rogue wave" hit the ship, either capsized her immediately, or caused the cargo to shift, so that she went over. Seems that new satellite studies have conclusively shown that the Great Lakes can and do produced huge "50ft+" high rogue waves.

They are going back and reviewing reports of all sudden, unexplained ship sinking around the world...and there seems to be a high correlation to conditions that can generate these monster waves.

[Castigar]

Interesting book about it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Whom-Bells-Toll-Unexplained-Fitzgerald/dp/0805969144/ref=sr_1_33/104-6506894-2427145?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186589294&sr=8-33