[xsmommy]

guessing it wasn't copper-bottomed. and the song i hate most in life!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

My God - never saw that video before. Between her launch, and the footage of the wreck discovered, and the faces and names of the 29 - i'm all goosebumped and teary-eyed. Damn.

And just for the record, the one way a copper bottom could have helped is if it kept growth from taking hold of the hull, spoiling her hydrodynamics and slowing her down. Then she may have had the speed to make the 15 miles to Whitefish Bay, which the searchers generally agree would have saved her. This assumes she was a wood-bottomed ship in the first place however.....

[SoothingDave]

And he is not amused.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++ and dittoes on hating the song.