Probably got caught between two big wave peaks and just cracked open.
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead ...
So we have to watch a video? Screw that.
Well, she might have split up or she might have capsized, she may have broke deep and took water...
Nothing mysterious about the sinking of the Fitzgerald, the weather took it down........
Good grief, AI is over...44 years late. What the video discusses was absolutely discussed during the post-mishap investigations.
Okay ya got 10 comments now, please do. You can spoil it for those of us who aren't fond of clickbait titles for a YouTube video.
Just put "***** SPOILER ALERT *****" around the spoiler. No biggie. :-)
Sad tragic story
Probably got caught between two big wave peaks and just cracked open.
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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.
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.
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.
Turns out it wasn't too rough to feed ya.
I think...the Arthur M. Anderson was retired this year.
Thats the boat that was in contact with the Fitz when it went down.
*****SPOILER ALERT!!!*****
Trump’s fault. Courts have ruled the sinking unconstitutional, ordered the ship restored and the dead resurrected within 3 days.