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2008-11-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Today in History: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Posted by Mike 2008-11-10 06:45|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 R.I.P., Allen G. Kalmon, Second Cook.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-11-10 08:59|| 2008-11-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.

From Gordon Lightfoot's song about the Edmund Fitzgerald

Posted by JohnQC 2008-11-10 16:21|| 2008-11-10 16:21|| Front Page Top

#3 As someone who went to sea, that song always made me feel uneasy. The book "The Perfect Storm" was absolutely frightening. What they've found out through satellite analysis about "killer" hundred-foot waves in the North Atlantic is that they not only exist, there are a lot more of them than anyone ever thought there would be.

All those "old sea stories" talking about huge waves were considered bogus for a long time. Turns out a lot of them were quite probably true.
The 79-foot Andrea Gail probably got pitchpoled by a 100+ foot wave. Ships don't recover from that.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-10 22:45|| 2008-11-10 22:45|| Front Page Top

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