Rip all 30 souls that died becuase of this ship... but... this is kind funny how it just ent up you cant lie. R.I.P

Honestly, considering how much mystery and uncertainty there is surrounding the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, that poses a lot of problems if Hollywood decided to make a motion picture about the event. What I think would be the most pragmatic and feasible way to tell the story is not on the Edmund Fitzgerald, but instead through the perspective of the Arthur M Anderson and her crew as they traveled through the storm that faithful night. It would still be compelling, yet also maintain the mystery that may never be solved. And perhaps it is best to be left that way.

I would like to know who was talking near the end when they said they were in the area and found lifejackets. Doesnt sound like Cooper. Was it Coast Guard? Another ship?

You can tell Capt Cooper is reliving that night during this interview. I’m sure he relived it a lot.

My biggest question is on the video from the dive in 1994, it shows that the door from the wheel house to the outside deck was latched open. Now on one of the radio conversations captain Mcsoerly could be heard saying don’t let no one out on that deck. Now in that big of a surf with waves coming over the bow up to twelve feet above the bridge, why would the crew have latched that door OPEN??? The last thing they wanted was to have water coming into the wheel house. It just doesn’t make sense

I'm interested to the stress fractures on the side to see in which direction they go, from top left to bottom right, top right to bottom left, which direction? Are they straight? Would that indicate anything?

Why is the boat in the beginning black but it says Edmund Fitzgerald that's not the Edmund Fitzgerald does anyone know why or what boat that really is

it wild i just seen the anderson heading out on lake st clair a week past

There should be a ship named after Bernie Cooper. This Courageous Man was the closest we would ever get to the night of the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster.

Being a retired great lakes sailor of 25 years i can absolutely tell you .to be in a storm particularly on lake superior .will put the fear of God into you. Michigan is bad also .speaking from experience ive been theu my share of bad storms .i loved my career and id do ot again if i could .in my heart of hearts ..when you get gale warnings you either stay put or if you can find shelter if possible. ..in some respects i can only imagine what those guys went thru knowing what was to come .2011 was the worst gale id ever sailed in .and i can tell you were lucky and God was watching. .i will not menyion the ship or the skipper .but to this day i lost all respect for him .he dam nesrbgit us all killed .we took one hell of a beating that day .but that goes with the job ,only sometimes its better to listen to the warnings. .than to rish the lives and the ship .by tye grace of God were all still here .

I've been in awe of this story since I first heard about it, but out of all the hundreds and hundreds of other shipwrecks is this one so famous? Is just because of a hit song from a 70s pop song?

Great stuff. Great ship, GREAT CREW.

Captain Cooper and the other captains that went back out into the worst storm in history to look for the Edmund Fitzgerald and their crew on that lake are absolute heroes! Everyone should listen to this man who was actually there that night! He's telling us exactly what happened, God rest your soul, Captain Cooper.

I worked up in Marquette Michigan for a couple of months and swam in lake Superior... Even in the middle of summer you dive down a couple of feet and it's ice cold.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a very long vessel and when a big wave hit it, it hit the bottom of Lake Superior and broke in 2. I guessing that structure was compromised when the big wave hit the Edmund Fitzgerald and when it hit bottom the structure couldn't take it any longer from being compromised that's why it broke in 2.

Whats the name of the song playing?

2:35 the coast guard brings up the Daniel J. Morrell

The Big Fitz ran the surface of the great lakes 17 years till GREED finally doomed her. She was overloaded constantly and had her load lines changed 3 times to haul bigger loads. Maintaince for her that she needed critically was pushed back and ignored. EERILY the hull plates and keel blocks for the EF sit in the shipyard to this day.

So, so sad... I pray for the brave souls that went down with the ship. You have earned your reward in heaven.

Impressive!

Lots of people don't realize the density of freshwater is different from seawater. Waves act very differently and are unpredictable.

Bernie was No 1

I still cannot believe the Coast Guard asking the Captain of the Arthur M Anderson to go back out and search. 🇦🇺🙏

Almost 50 years and the crew is still remembered - very grateful!!

Almost 50 years and am sooo grateful the Fitzgerald crew is still remembered! This is a GREAT video - THANKS!

The fitz was overloaded by 4000 tonnes and by hatch coverings Mcsorley meant baillst hatches

Something absolutely destroyed the pilot house. Those visors are bent 90° down. If waves were coming from astern what else couldve bent them down so violently?

The only thing I disagree with Capt. Cooper is, I think McSorley knew he had failed his ship and crew. Thats why he was calm on the radio... No one seems to ever state the obvious.. which is - Ultimately the captain failed his ship and crew that day in an act of hubris not uncommon of over confident old farts that should have been put back in the rack before they got everyone under their command killed. He knew she was run ragged and over loaded facing a super nasty storm. He chose to go for broke.. and she indeed broke. Old fool.

If anyone would know, I believe this captain who was right behind the Fitzgerald in contact and in the very same weather, familiar with these lakes would absolutely be the one.

11/10/23

I did a report on the Edmund Fitzgerald In elementary school and I still tune in on November 10th each year. Incredible ship, incredible crew, may God be with them.

SO SAD, STILL FEEL THE PERIL OF THIS CREW EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME. GOD REST THE 29 SOULS. NOV. 2023

The guitar is hauntingly beautiful

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Was the hull compromised when it slammed against the opposing dock?

Actually he said they had taken a list. He never said which side.

(-_■)The captain may very well have been as calm as he was because he'd probably already made peace with his demons, himself, and even God himself, after finally knowing that he wasn't going to make it to any other home but the house in the sky, and be judged, now I'm not about to just go claiming anything like America's going to bring the Titanic back to the surface, because A: The metallic remains are most likely going to be as fragile as Kleenex after you soak it in water., and B: That ship may as very well be two or three mass graves., Now I'm definitely not about to go ripping apart someone else's grave, let alone one or more mass grave burial sites, if someone else sees fit to do so I'm all for it, mostly because the only thing I'd be able to do about it is trying to organize a protest, and more than likely fail, plus even if we could bring back one or even both of them to the surface, then we should think about what's most likely to happen if we rip up an ancient Native American burial site.😑

God bless the souls of those lost to the waters of the Great Lakes, the oceans and seas...🌹

Captain Cooper was a courageous man to go back out to search for the Fitzgerald.

I just saw the Arthur M Anderson today going through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie still in service after all these years

Something about this accident really stirs my soul. The Titanic has never done this to me or any other marine disaster I know of.

People think shipwrecks on the Great Lakes only happened 100 years ago. This list is just since 1950's! It's totally sobering to read... project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/shipwrecks.htm

Captain Bernie Cooper is a legend and deserves so much respect and he and his crew deserve so much more respect than I felt they’ve got

There's really no way the Fitz broke apart on the surface. Two reasons: as many have pointed out, the proximity of the bow and stern practically necessitates that she hit the bottom and broke in half. 2. If the Fitz broke apart on the surface, they would have had plenty of time to make a distress call on the radio - instead, they didn't even have enough time to say "Mayday". She had lost nearly all of her natural buoyancy and was fighting to stay afloat in that storm, then when the rogue waves hit her the bow went straight down, diving into the bottom like a submarine.

don't forget that Captain Don Ericson of the Wiliam Clay Ford, an identical freighter, also joined the Anderson & Cooper in leaving shelter of Whitefish Bay and searching.

At the 1:30 mark he says "those two seas were the worst I've ever been in on lake Superior; but he in fact meant 'those two waves were the worst...' I guess he was nervous doing the interview and spaced out.

Very well done video.

gone but not forgotten

The Great Lakes are unforgiving

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down