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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tec on November 10, 2013, 10:43:17 AM
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It's Nov. 10th, the one day a year I have to hear Gordon Lightfoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw)
R.I.P.
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That song gets to me every time but with that video it tears me up. Thank you for posting.
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That song gets to me every time but with that video it tears me up. Thank you for posting.
Yea whoever put that vid together did a great job. It's so much more powerful with the news segments, radio coms, and crew pics.
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RIP
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R.I.P. :salute
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Thanks for that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxKaV5t-IA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxKaV5t-IA) Survivor of the Daniel J Morrel shipwreck in 1966
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Yea whoever put that vid together did a great job. It's so much more powerful with the news segments, radio coms, and crew pics.
+1
RIP :salute
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....as the bulk freighters go she was bigger than most, with a Crew and a Captain well seasoned..... :pray
.....the church bells chimed 29 times.....
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/brandonmate1/EdmundFitzgerald2.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/brandonmate1/media/EdmundFitzgerald2.jpg.html)
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I used to log in Iron Ore shipments for Republic Steel from the Edmund Fitzgerald. What a tragedy.
I read that the Great Lakes are the most treacherous and most stormy bodies of water on the planet.
That includes all the Oceans and seas.
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I used to log in Iron Ore shipments for Republic Steel from the Edmund Fitzgerald. What a tragedy.
I read that the Great Lakes are the most treacherous and most stormy bodies of water on the planet.
That includes all the Oceans and seas.
An estimated 6000 ship wrecks....so far.
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I used to log in Iron Ore shipments for Republic Steel from the Edmund Fitzgerald. What a tragedy.
I read that the Great Lakes are the most treacherous and most stormy bodies of water on the planet.
That includes all the Oceans and seas.
Indeed Hajo, my Dad sailed them for more than 30 years,he told me 3 times he said his prayers because the crew thought they were going down! While the ocean might have larger waves the lakes can take you by surprize!
:salute
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An estimated 6000 ship wrecks....so far.
The Great Lakes, a collection of five freshwater lakes located in North America, have been sailed upon since at least the 17th century, and thousands of ships have been sunk while traversing them. Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the Lakes is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum approximates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost,[1] while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that the total number of wrecks is likely more than 25,000.[2] In the period between 1816, when the Invincible was lost, to the sinking of the Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area alone has claimed at least 240 ships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxKaV5t-IA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxKaV5t-IA) Survivor of the Daniel J Morrel shipwreck in 1966
I was actually thinking of that incident as well, but didn't think I'd ever remember the name of the boat. Has to be the definition of surreal to be sitting on one half of a ship watching the other half sail off into the darkness.
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I was actually thinking of that incident as well, but didn't think I'd ever remember the name of the boat. Has to be the definition of surreal to be sitting on one half of a ship watching the other half sail off into the darkness.
I listened to that whole interview. What an experience. I ordered the book.
Now I have to learn to read :(
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Wow, good clip, thanks for posting.
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I remember being a 15 year old kid and listening to the USA CG and Canadian CG in the initial search & rescue on a zenith Transoceantic Wooden cabinet shortwave. The search & rescue was sadly not a long process.
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http://www.divedetectives.com/rogue-wave-edmund-fitzgerald.php
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