In remembrance of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[anonomoose]

I am intimately familiar with mother nature and boating in big no huge water many hours from any land.

when I was a kid I spent every summer on the bearing sea on the old mans commercial fishing boat.

Care to expound on this??

 

[Pizza Man]

We have been to the Museum at White Fish Point a few times.
Years ago we went around Lake Superior and stopped at a museum at the Soo.
I remember going into a ships hull and seeing items from the Fritz.
Is that still there??

 

[ezra]

Care to expound on this??

what part?
yes from about 6yrs old to 17 yrs old I spent the summers in AK with the old man.
3/4 of that time was on the boat gill net salmon/cinch net tuna/long line halibut
no boat I was on ever went down. but 2 of the boats my old man had leased out to people went down.1 of them the crew did not make it.
yeah I have been in seas so big U have to be seat belted in waves way bigger than the boat crashing over it.
never went back to do it as a adult even though I could have made a ez 50g a summer as a full share if that tells u something

 

[highhertel]

We have been to the Museum at White Fish Point a few times.
Years ago we went around Lake Superior and stopped at a museum at the Soo.
I remember going into a ships hull and seeing items from the Fritz.
Is that still there??

Very nice museum, called the Valley Camp.

 

[m8man]

Each year, the local radio station plays a part of the radio transmission between the dispatcher and the captain of the trailing freighter, the Arthur B. Anderson I believe. The dispatcher asks the captain to go back out and look for the Edmund. He sounds very nervous and unsure if he'll make it back. He asks the dispatcher "Do you know what it's like out there?" very chilling

btw, it's the same station where some get the local weather forecast from JD. My grandparents knew the Cundy guy who was on the ship and his family was from Hubbell.

m8man

 

[m8man]

here is that link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWpqKy424o