Remember the Edmund Fitzgerald

...where the love of God goes, when the waves turn minutes to hours?

Great song, terrible tragedy. I wrote an article about the sinking of Big Fitz on the 15th anniversary. I still believe that she ran aground ground at 5 meter shoal and took on water which caused the the taconite pellets to shift and pull her under. The explosion of the boilers underwater and decompression probably popped the deck hatches. These were very experienced seaman well aware of the dangers of the Great Lakes in Novemeber. They would not have left the hatches unbuckled.

There's a new book on the subject which came out yesterday - Mighty Fitz : The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald . I already have it on order.