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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 34th Anniversary
Gather.com ^ | November 10 2009 | Mike R

Posted on 11/10/2009 12:12:18 PM PST by LukeL

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To: Kartographer

I like videos like this even better. They are music videos movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw


41 posted on 11/10/2009 1:19:58 PM PST by Revel
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To: GVnana

I’ll second that opinion


42 posted on 11/10/2009 1:25:35 PM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: vortigern

I grew up in the Thumb area of MI. Now I live near Lake Superior...I always think of that wreck.


43 posted on 11/10/2009 1:28:46 PM PST by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: ReformedBeckite

I grew up on Sawyer AFB in the UP. I remember going into Marquette many a time and seeing the bulk carriers loading iron orr at the dock.


44 posted on 11/10/2009 1:29:27 PM PST by PeteB570 (Airborne, the only way to get to work in the morning.)
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To: militant2

My father used to take me up in the Terminal Tower as a child growing up in Cleveland to watch the ore ships (for some reason, we called them ore “boats”, not really correctly) winding their way up the Cuyahoga River to the steel mills (he had worked in Jones and Laughlin). That river has a number of sharp bends in it, and the pilots would guide the ships up the river with about a one foot clearance off the bow and stern, and a foot of clearance amidships on the opposite side.


45 posted on 11/10/2009 1:40:57 PM PST by Sigurdrifta
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To: Sigurdrifta

Amazing stuff!

We call them ore boats, too.

Militant


46 posted on 11/10/2009 1:45:58 PM PST by militant2 (I may not agree with everything you say, but......hell, I don't agree with anything you say!)
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To: raccoonradio

17 statute miles = 14.7 nautical miles


47 posted on 11/10/2009 1:47:28 PM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: militant2

About 4 years ago I was at a Lightfoot outdoor concert... a huge cloudburst struck just before the break. He sang Edmund Fitzgerald in the midst of this drenching rain, lightning and crashing thunder. Everyone was soaked. And cheering.


48 posted on 11/10/2009 1:49:39 PM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: BarbM

The Edmund Fitzgerald is only another one of the lessons that man should learn about Mother Nature. The power of the wonders that our God created is far greater than our miniscule capabilities can get close to mastering, even if we confine ourselves to only the small power (in comparison to Sol, Galactic, etc.) that Mother Earth can generate.


49 posted on 11/10/2009 1:52:50 PM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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50 posted on 11/10/2009 1:55:03 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Sigurdrifta

My dad was a Hullet operator back in the day and used to unload the Big Fitz. One of the biggest ore carriers ever.


51 posted on 11/10/2009 1:57:15 PM PST by Tuxedo (The seeds of the next Revolution are sown....)
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To: raccoonradio

I too use to think it was a ship from the 1800s or even earlier. I was shocked when learned a ship of that size could sink in 1975 without even a mayday going out.
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I think they bottom out at the shoals and were later hit by a rouge wave.


52 posted on 11/10/2009 2:02:45 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: GVnana
That song always gave me my quarter's worth at my favorite pizza joint where I hung out with my college friends.

Had to by the CD years later just for the memories.

53 posted on 11/10/2009 2:11:53 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: LukeL

When they finally found it, I think it was found capsized. Not sure though.


54 posted on 11/10/2009 2:12:31 PM PST by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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To: waxer1

The backside was upside down. They think the ship did a nosedive and split in half, the back end still had the propeller running and that cause the ship to torque over and land on its deck.


55 posted on 11/10/2009 2:17:50 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: grellis; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; ExTexasRedhead

That was a huge tragedy, remembered by the Gordon Lightfoot song.


56 posted on 11/10/2009 2:26:11 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: LukeL; All
Some pretty good links here, including some video of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the floor of Lake Superior.
57 posted on 11/10/2009 2:31:47 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: GVnana

This song is so haunting gives me chills when I hear it.

My favorite line of the song:

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”


58 posted on 11/10/2009 3:01:35 PM PST by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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To: ReformedBeckite

I used to live in Marquette. That day the waves were bigger than anyone remembers.


59 posted on 11/10/2009 3:11:38 PM PST by John D
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To: PeteB570

Do you remember the waves comming over Presque Isle that day?


60 posted on 11/10/2009 3:14:04 PM PST by John D
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