Trevor Collins

Right.

He knows how his ship responded to those.

He's guessing that of all the things he saw and felt that night, that maybe those were the two waves big enough to create an oomph strong enough to take that behemoth down.

Two different ships, two different conditions.

Again, we'll talk about the cargo, some of the theories, structurally what might be going on with the Fitzgerald.

But ultimately, you know, it paints a very vivid image of what happened that night.

And I'll kind of continue with the timeline because things go on for at least another 15, 20 minutes before...

we really start to know that the Fitzgerald is probably gone, but it's never seen going down, I think.

So while all this is happening, first mate on the Anderson named Morgan Clark, he's keeping a watch on the Fitzgerald via radar during this entire journey.

So regardless, to your point, if they see it or lose sight of it again, someone's keeping an eye on the Fitzgerald on radar.

But he seems to keep losing her, again, looking at the radar due to what's called sea return, or sometimes sea clutter.

This happens when waves get so tall that they can interfere with the reflection of the radar, and it creates essentially unwanted random signals on the display, random pings that you would trust would be a ship.

But because the...

waves coming up so high they catch and reflect things and so now he's struggling to really honestly track the ship itself then around 7 10 pm clark radioed the fitzgerald to help them navigate to whitefish point clark asked quote by the way fitzgerald how are you making out with your problems end quote

So again, this is minutes after that double wave had just hit the Anderson and now headed off towards Fitzgerald.

And Captain McSorley on the Fitzgerald responds with simply, quote, we are holding our own, end quote.

Now, this would be the last time anyone had heard from the Fitzgerald or had seen the Fitzgerald.

Thought so.

Yeah, it sounds like a stressed out captain.

I'm obviously adding a lot of assumptions into the mix here, but, you know, we're holding our own.