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Why was there no disress call made on the Edmund Fitzgerald?

Anonymous Mon 05 Aug 2024 09:39:30 No.2012054 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2013534 >>2013535 >>2015932 >>2016013 >>2016180 >>2019448 >>2020864 >>2021090

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Anonymous Mon 05 Aug 2024 15:00:32 No.2012071 Report

Quoted By: >>2016686

Didn’t have a hydrostatic epirb and shit hit the fan too quick

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Anonymous Thu 15 Aug 2024 03:18:48 No.2013534 Report

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>>2012054
Power was generated in the engine room at the stern. When the fatal wave overtook the ship from the stern and broke the ships back, those power cables were severed. Everything at the front went dead except maybe for some emergency lighting. Several catastrophic things were happening in quick succession and the crew had no time.

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Anonymous Thu 15 Aug 2024 03:21:38 No.2013535 Report

Quoted By: >>2015932 >>2019448 >>2019480

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Anonymous Fri 30 Aug 2024 12:53:33 No.2015932 Report

Quoted By: >>2016180

>>2012054
>>2013535
indeed, just look at that thing of course it was going to break in half

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Anonymous Fri 30 Aug 2024 20:05:08 No.2016013 Report

Quoted By: >>2020380

>>2012054
Wasn't this ship basically in trouble already and its shields were failing. I mean yes there was no mayday, but it was constantly reporting they were in some dire straits.

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 16:31:24 No.2016180 Report

Quoted By: >>2019490

>>2012054
>>2015932
Of all maritime disasters, Great Lake freighter losses are the most foreseeable. It's almost comical how people are surprised when these noodles snap.

They're unseaworthy pieces of shit.

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 23:06:20 No.2016244 Report

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It went into a wave and never came out.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2024 00:51:16 No.2016686 Report

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>>2012071
That isn’t true the cook told them it was to rough to feed them hours before it sank.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2024 01:32:05 No.2016698 Report

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>>2016686
hope they took that time out of his wages then
What cook can’t make sandwiches for the boys what was he even doing during that time

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2024 04:05:53 No.2016968 Report

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I do know the lighthouse lost power that night at Whitefish point

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2024 20:43:00 No.2017060 Report

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Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 03:23:48 No.2019448 Report

Quoted By: >>2019483 >>2019550

>>2012054
well she's in 2 pieces now so likely either Cresting or Wave Spanning and either sank too fast to get an SOS off, or as >>2013535
said, no power.

Ploughing is the other plausible theory and the bridge crew were done before they knew they could get anything out, and she broke up on the way down.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 06:32:27 No.2019480 Report

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>>2013535

Wait a sec, you're telling me that emergency equipment like the radio didn't have a backup power source, even though backup generators and batteries have been a feature on vessels going all the way back to the Titanic?

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 07:10:52 No.2019483 Report

Quoted By: >>2019583

>>2019448
ploughing makes the most sense to me. ship gets fucked by 3 rogue waves and takes a header into the lake bed, goes ass-up and rips in half.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 09:20:39 No.2019490 Report

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>>2016180
>They're unseaworthy pieces of shit.
Good thing they're on lakes and not the sea.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 13:05:12 No.2019512 Report

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>overloaded old pile of shit sails until she sinks

truly what a catastrophe

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Anonymous Sun 22 Sep 2024 22:16:14 No.2019550 Report

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>>2019448
Not taking it out on you o-p, but the creator of that infographic needs to re-assess his (lack of) skills.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Sep 2024 05:11:38 No.2019583 Report

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>>2019483
You're a fucking idiot. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 25 miles from whitefish bay. The water was 530 feet deep.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Sep 2024 14:56:15 No.2019609 Report

Quoted By: >>2020799

They made numerous calls that their radars were down, other equipment was damaged, and they had a list with the pumps going, but never an “OH SHIT!” call. “We are holding our own” was the last message from the Fitz, so whatever sank them was sudden and catastrophic.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2024 17:31:16 No.2020380 Report

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>>2016013
The captain wired in he had water comin in and the good ship and crew was in peril.

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Anonymous Fri 04 Oct 2024 13:51:59 No.2020799 Report

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>>2019609
>whatever sank them was sudden and catastrophic.
Eldritch lake monster

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Anonymous Fri 04 Oct 2024 23:16:51 No.2020864 Report

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>>2012054
It was naptime

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Anonymous Sun 06 Oct 2024 22:11:53 No.2021066 Report

Quoted By: >>2021088

they were all drunk as fuck

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Anonymous Mon 07 Oct 2024 05:10:01 No.2021088 Report

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>>2021066
Well yeah, they were from Wisconsin, what does that have to do with the ship sinking?

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Anonymous Mon 07 Oct 2024 05:50:51 No.2021090 Report

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>>2012054
It’s Lake Superior and it’s November, ain’t nobody coming to save you in time.

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