The revelations about the lost bodies from the Two Harbors diver raised many questions about what happened to the men who went down with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Where are they now? From the many official videos I had seen over the years, the camera seemed shy of peering into the wheelhouse but lingered a Read More
BREE'S BLOG: In The Wake of the Fitzgerald
Bodies on the Fitzgerald?
October 19, 2017
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Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior shipwrecks, bodies of crew members, Fitz's door dogged open, lost crewman in bottom muck, causes of sinking, effects of bodies in fresh wateer
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May 11, 2018 12:55 PM EDT
Nope. Not at all the "only conclusion." Some oreboat skippers made a practice of dogging their lee door (in Fitz's case, that would be the "port" door) open to better hear in reduced visibility. And Fred Stonehouse's take on the body is that the life jacket is the wrong vintage and the fabric too decayed to belong to anyone from the Fitz. Connecting the two is just creative lubber wish-think.
- Wendy
Nov 27, 2018 6:36 PM EST
The storm was terrible and waves washed down the boat and piled up behind the pilot house. In those conditions I cannot feel that anyone in the pilot house would dog open a door for ventilation. It would have been shut tight to keep the water out. As for the crew member who lies on the lake's bottom, he probably tried to get out and ascend to the surface but the pressures at that depth would have crushed all floatation out of it. A crew member off someone else's boat just ending up right along the Fitz? Pretty remote, I'd say
- marlin bree