In an original documentary they interviewed the Captain of the Anderson who was trailing behind the Fitzgerald as her radar had gone down. The Captain of the Anderson said that he thought that either a stress fracture had done it or the damage that she sustained bottoming on a reef she cut very close. I always thought that it was curious that no one dove on the reef to see if in fact she had bottomed there. That large a ship and that large a cargo bottoming on that reef would surely leave an indication.
Hard to die in the cold and wet of Lake Superior in November......
Prayers for all those who go down to the sea in ships.
The CG story was that the waves were so high, and the corresponding troughs so deep, that when the EF set on that course, which she would have easily survived in better weather, she repeatedly banged her bottom in the troughs.
Also, incredible as it may seem in a lake, that particular contour wasn't accurately charted. Reckon it is now! BTW, the series of dives in which the bell and other artifacts were discovered was well documented and has already been broadcast.
PS, Gordon Lightfoot, the only serious rival to Leonard Cohen in the hotly contested "Most Boring Canadian Singer" sweepstakes, is quite an experienced lake sailor and wooden boat aficcionado. Thus, as long as he leaves his guitar in the Frozen North, he is welcome in Maine.