Gordon Lightfoot - The Edmund Fitzgerald

dhermesc · 06-30-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by nathangdad

. . . yet the absence of escape craft on the ship seems always overlooked.

I feel the ship owners have a true criminal liability.

If a 40,000 ton ship couldn't stay afloat what are the chances of a dingy staying afloat?

Lizard · 06-30-2008, 05:11 PM

The song chokes me up every time I hear it.

I was pretty much unemployed when that happened, but that night I had a job working in one of the foundries in Milwaukee on the graveyard shift. I heard a news break-in about an unidentified SOS from the Great Lakes and then updates all the rest of the night.

An old drunk who worked on first shift came in and said he'd been a merchant sailor on the Lakes and said, "That Lady never gives up her dead." He knew that when ships go down in Superior, the bodies never float to the surface.

Over the years, I read about it. Even read some comments from the families that were grateful to Gordon Lightfoot because they said everyone else just seemed to have ignored or forgotten those men.

Wasn't there a deep dive expedition by National Geographic that found and photographed the wreck? Seems that the investigation said that it went down in as little as 2 minutes, I think, and that the NG photos confirmed that.

06-30-2008, 05:11 PM	#22
Lizard Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 152	The song chokes me up every time I hear it. I was pretty much unemployed when that happened, but that night I had a job working in one of the foundries in Milwaukee on the graveyard shift. I heard a news break-in about an unidentified SOS from the Great Lakes and then updates all the rest of the night. An old drunk who worked on first shift came in and said he'd been a merchant sailor on the Lakes and said, "That Lady never gives up her dead." He knew that when ships go down in Superior, the bodies never float to the surface. Over the years, I read about it. Even read some comments from the families that were grateful to Gordon Lightfoot because they said everyone else just seemed to have ignored or forgotten those men. Wasn't there a deep dive expedition by National Geographic that found and photographed the wreck? Seems that the investigation said that it went down in as little as 2 minutes, I think, and that the NG photos confirmed that.