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Edmond Fitzgerald ; any enthusiast???
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    Posted: 14 hours 35 minutes ago at 5:00pm
Tomorrow will be the 50th,anniversary of the great freighter sinking in Lake Superior,, any opinions/ thoughts on this massive loss??
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Was always curious as to what got the ship. Even as have found and inspected, no definitive answers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LRBmIqzO6o
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I remember the day. Today we are having our first snow in many areas. But not as stormy as that fateful day! (Ontario Canada)
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I remember the storm the night the Fitz sank. I'm in Southern Michigan and we had snow and ice. The wind howled out of the north. I can only imagine how bad it was on Lake Superior!

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Have loved since introduced. A haunting story that gives me chills every time I hear it. My imagination runs as though were there but of course cannot fully understand the reality. Remarkable that a cause has not been determined even after finding her. I'm sure it's a combination of things but have tendency to believe she was heavier than designed for that day
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Even though I was only 9, I remember it announced on the radio. We had toured the Soo Locks the summer before. I got a little toy souvenir ship from the gift shop of a freighter and lo and behold it was the Edmund Fitzgerald. I went to University in Sault Ste. Marie and of course everything around there was shipping related. I got into the story of that wreck more and more. I’ve experienced a lot of weather like what took the Fitz down that night while up there. All I can think, the last hour or so of their life had to be quite a ride. Imagine the size of those ships being tossed around like a bobber. Even then those guys had been in storms before and probably didn’t think they were going to go down until the last second. 30 foot waves at a faster frequency than seen on oceans. Quite a ride for sure.
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