Probably got caught between two big wave peaks and just cracked open.
Posted on 08/30/2025 3:55:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Was Just Scanned by An AI — And It Revealed Something No One Expected
Beneath the icy depths of Lake Superior lies the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship that vanished without warning nearly fifty years ago. No distress call. No survivors. Just silence. Now, for the first time, advanced AI has scanned the wreck with breathtaking precision. What it revealed was not just decay or twisted steel, but details that no one expected to see. How could one of the most respected ships on the Great Lakes disappear so suddenly? The answers hidden in this scan may rewrite the story of its final hours.
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Probably got caught between two big wave peaks and just cracked open.
Same here.
It was a brilliant, masterminded plan.
😂
It *is* somewhat odd how ALL of the clamps were off on all of the hatches, tho ... 🤔
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A lot of us won’t commit to a 35 minute long video. The Gordon Lightfoot version, long enough, is shoreter.
Jim’s post are lyrics from the song.
Well l know it was too rough to feed the men.
Well, that was sweet of them. The song is great as a song. Poets and historians have separate lanes.
Shakespear’s histories are also inaccurate, flattering the monarch in power and calumnising the monarch who was recently deposed.
She might have split up or she might have capsized,
she may have broke deep and took water.
But all that remains is the faces and the names,
and the wives and the sons and the daughters.
They weren’t all off. But enough of them were weakened that they gave way, causing the sound ones to burst, too, because they were insufficient by themselves.
Poorly maintained hatch and vent covers let in water during the storm. There was no break up, wave lapping over the decks filled the vessel.The entire AI schtick is pure bullshit, it was high resolution submarine photography.
TLDW: The steel clamps securing the cargo hold hatches failed under stress and a vent pipe had sheered off, leaving a four inch opening. Four thousand gallons of water poured in per minute. The clamps would have passed visual inspection.
Ok, I’ll let the secret out - it was full of torpedos for an invasion of Canada and one of them accidentally detonated.
No, that’s not it. I didn’t watch the vid, but as I recollect it, this ship succumbed to the waves. It set out late in the season when most shipping had already stopped.
Wave height depends on wind, and in the SW to NE direction along Lake Superior, there’s a hell of a lot of runway for wind to develop.
Big waves, fully loaded ship.
No mystery, just tragedy.
The ship rests about 500 feet down but you would think it is as deep as the Titanic. They know exactly what the cause was but act like it is unknown to avoid liability.
I misread that as the Fitzgerald was scammed by AI and was trying to wrap my head around what that meant!
It had a loose keel. It was over loaded for that time of year. It touched bottom on the shoals it went over, which put a split in her back. It started filling with water and went down some miles after they touched bottom.
The cargo weight broke it up after it went under
They used stacked welding rods to help tighten the keel.
Word was, that boat was to be condemned from use. But, the shipping company had to get just one more run in.
The song has 29 verses. FWIW.
Not many inspiring ballads about plumbers for example. Or snow plow drivers.
So when one does come along it is nice.
And you are right about Shakespeare. If you study his plays as propaganda you see whole new layers. Macbeth for example. Do not want to upset ol James by suggesting his ancestor's coup was not legitimate.
Time travel. Lightfoot wanted a hit song, so he sent a Terminator into the past to give him a theme. He infiltrated the crew, and at a crucial moment started violently ripping off hatch clamps and vent pipes. Then he laughed evilly, and jumped into the water, ending up as a timeshare salesman in Mexico.
Yup... And according to AI everybody in history was either gay, or transgender, or both...
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