42 years ago today...

[Jarlaxle]

 

[harmonica]

and we still have ships and boats lost at sea
a horrible way to go.....especially the ''slow'' ferry sinking --was that South Korea?
cold water...you can't escape...!!

 

[baileyn45]

I have a friend who's family business supplied the life rafts and preservers for the Fitz. When recovered they were sent back to him for restoration. All were then sent to museums, all except one life preserver that hung in his basement man cave for years. It was just a few years ago that a museum requested it. He of course happily sent it on it's way. It was cool all those years to be so near to a piece of history.

Strangely, I have a couple of other personal ties to the Fitz, distant ties. One an acquaintance, a friend of a friend, whose father was lost on that night. Another, a good friend married the daughter of the Coast Guard Captain that went out after her.
It's fascinating to listen to people with that close of ties, not only the factual things they speak of but to hear the personal experiences is priceless and sobering. Needless to say they are all still affected by the experience.

 

[whitehall]

Apparently they failed to secure the cargo covers properly. It's ironic that Gordon Lightfoot probably made more money from his hit "Edmund Fitzgerald" than the value of the cargo at the time.