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Did the SS Edmund Fitzgerald not sink in Superior?

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My wife and I drove up to Whitefish Point for the one and only time we ever visited the place. It was in mid summer of 1998 and I recall looking north-northwest and thinking about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's crew 17 miles away and 535 feet below the surface. We were there on a calm warm sunny day and it was hard to imagine waves as high as 25 feet 23 years earlier. I wonder if there’s ever been a storm like that since November 10, 1975. It seems like the last rough winter we experienced was in the 1990s. I’m 80 and have lived in St Paul since my family moved here from MD in 1956. From the 1950s to the 1990s we usually had much more snow and extreme cold. i recall walking to school one morning when it was -34 F and I really appreciated the heavy snowstorms that caused my school to close. Although I enjoyed cold snowy winters during my younger days, I’m thankful about the mild winters in recent years. But when we moved to MN I was 12 and greatly looking forward to all the snow, unlike MD where the small amount of snow we had melted quickly. We would have to get our sleds and rush outside before the snow vanished.

Ah yes a story of the lakes but only from the states 😂

The Bruce is pretty treacherous, Tobermory alone has around 30 shipwrecks.....

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Phenomenal video and great history lesson.

I've done pooping on the beach, many people see it. I was embarrass, my butthole close up and I waddle away trying to hold in the poopoo. The beach

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I spent two weeks camping at Long point every year for 38 years. Those sandbars and that beach changes on the daily. I’ve always thought the Long Point Long Harbour, some of the most shipwrecks in all of the great lakes region.

best explanation in forever!!!

Fish Lake Ontario every day from April to October. Know well how dangerous it can be. Today July 19 water temperature at 150' feet deep was 42F.

Sounds like Captains Arrogance Syndrome led to a lot of these wrecks.

The storms on Lake Erie can sneak up on you without warning. I know people who said they were lucky to have beaten a storm back to shore.

I am 73 years old now. I am from Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada and I am the real deal. I spent my entire life sailing for Canada Steamship lines and Algoma. 43 years in the worst storms you could ever imagine. You should be interviewing me. I could tell you some real stories.

I don't know about totals of dead, but the Western end of Erie near The Islands can be very dangerous in late summer and September... From insanely powerful and fast-moving thunder storms. Wind shears of 100 MPH have been recorded. I've seen them come suddenly from the Northwest, turning the entire sky green, with 6 or 7 water spouts in a line in front of the roiling thunderheads, lightening constantly coursing amongst the clouds. The initial gusts are over 60 MPH . All this within 30 minutes of a calm, sunny day. They don't last long, but when they hit the Ohio coast tornadoes often occur inland. Not just the Western end, either... I've seen them hit Fairport Harbor about 30 miles East of Cleveland. Once, the force of the storm pushing water upriver rose the Grand River 10 feet over normal levels. You really need to check the weather report before going out; you can't trust what the sky is currently doing.

I can't stand it when a perfectly good documentary video gets corrupted by the maker's beliefs in dumb urban legends like "mystery triangles".

I live on Lake Michigan, and most people who drowned don’t live near Lake Michigan at least more than an hour away. If you spend any time near Lake Michigan you heed the warning cause it’s an inland Sea and the Great Lakes will kill you if you ain’t on point. A good southern wind is mostly your safest day.

superior never gives up her dead is something i remember my grandfather telling me. he used to go boating all around southern ontario but he never did lake superior.

Our family has a summer cottage at Long Point on Hastings Drive for just over 100 years. Erie is a strange lake with many quirks that are very dangerous to those not familiar with it. You can be 1 mile from shore and sitting in 4 ft of water and visible sandbars, only to find those sandbars not there 2 days later. The amount of sand moved by the undertows are significant. It's a deadly lake even to those that have been here for as long as my family.

I always thought Superior was the most dangerous.

I have a summer place near the marysburg vortex. Wicked storms and very cold water.l along with tons of waterspouts..lots of ufo sightings and weird compass anomolies supposedly happen there as well. Probably fake but fun to think about.

Got stuck in a storm off the tip of long point on the CCGS Constable Carriere in October 2013. We got slapped around pretty good but made it though. The whole crew was shook up and we had seasoned coasties that sailed in the North Atlantic for years that never experienced anything like it. Too close for comfort

Chicagoan here who kayaks the river regularly! Even as calm as it is most of the time, it's still water, and every time I go out on it I think of the Eastland and remind myself of my safety precautions. I was honestly kinda surprised to see it included in a list about the lakes since it wasn't actually on the lake, but I love seeing people bring attention to it! I also def learned about new incidents I'd never heard of before from this video. Very informative.

My uncle was on a Great Lakes tugboat for about twenty years in the 1950s and 60s. He lived on Michigan's Upper Peninsula near Marquette. I actually went and worked a job near Marquette from August to March back in the 80s. The wildest winter I ever saw.

Superior 'never gives up her dead' because the water is so cold it inhibits bacterial growth. A body that sinks to the bottom of the lake won't bloat up with buoyant gas and rise to the surface.

Anyone know the song that was playing on the segment about the Charles S. Price?

Yes, that shirt makes you look fat.

Well done..very imp.too do good research. ❤❤❤❤❤

Each lake has its history of tragedy. Superior with the big storms is scary. Michigan and Huron are littered with ships from big storms. Tobermory has wrecks all around it. Erie and Ontario have their own histories. The eastern end of Lake Ontario is littered with wrecks with all the rocky shoals. Erie is just plain nasty with waves out of no where. No one can claim one over the other. ..

Whitefish point.

Nicely done ! I have scuba dived wrecks on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay . There is a very impressive history under the waves .

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Lake Erie boater out of Vermillion here. When the winds pick up you get out quick because that lake with only a 20-40ft depth in most places it will whip up some crazy waves in no time at all. Typically gets bad with North winds.

There are more wrecks on Erie because its had more traffic for a longer time.

Most storms on Lake Superior move in a west-to-east direction. Winds travel undisturbed over hundreds of miles of open water, which allows waves to build in size. By the time they get to the eastern end of the lake they can be truly monstrous. There is a reason the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at Whitefish Point.

Ric is a true gem of the Great Lakes region. We really enjoy his writings and his videos. I hope to see him in person someday.

Great video, very well done.

Lightfoot lyrics: the legend lives on from the chipewa on down to the big lake they call gitchigoomi. Not a chipewa legend but a reference to the chipewa river in ontario

I grew up and live in the UP. I have fished Superior many times and always amazes me at the depth. I usually fish by White Fish point. I remember stream fishing when the Friz. went down. A tree came down close to me in the wind! I went home then!

It’s well documented that there are over 300 wrecks off the shores of Long Point, as well as two airplanes.

Detroit is the most dangerous wreck on the great lakes

The nonpareil safest place in ALL THE GREAT LAKES, 😌😌😌, is California, you Beautiful MidWest Women. You should come out from Iowa, and Indiana, and Illinois, come to the West Coast and find your heart's release and comfort. Haven't you ever taken a chance, cast your Heart into being someone who could fall in Love? ..come, darling hearts, We are good out here.. if you can want to find us, Love..✌️🎉❤️

Have you seen the painting on the rocks of that flying monster?? Go look it up

my family were lighthouse keepers on superior they told some interesting stories about the old days

Great storytelling!

Lake St Clair north of Detroit although being small? has it's fair share of boating incidents! Just saying. 👍

No thanks. I think i'm just going to stay ashore after all. lol

Well done by every count. Thanks.