Trevor Collins

Sounds like, you know, we got some problems, but we're dealing with it.

We've got it.

We've got this under control.

But then, just five minutes later, at 7.15pm, the vessel once again disappeared from radar, but unlike the anomalies beforehand, she never came back.

The positive radar readings from the Fitzgerald never returned, so essentially, we're pretty confident around this time is when she went under.

Clark then tries to contact the ship once again at 7.22pm, but of course, as you can imagine, no response.

Captain Cooper then contacted other ships nearby to see if they had seen or heard from the Fitzgerald, and at this point in time, the weather cleared up just enough for the lights on the Fitzgerald to be visible, right?

But they weren't.

So now all the precipitation and the wind, they're like, I should be seeing it.

She's not there.

So we're pretty 100% confident, I would say, in retrospect, from Captain Cooper's perspective, that the Fitzgerald is unfortunately succumbed to the conditions and sunk.

It's just one of those really unfortunate last messages where...

Yeah, maybe in retrospect, knowing what happens, it feels ominous, but also it lacks the information that you would hope would have been there.

You know, because like looking back, I'm like, man, I wish the captain would have known to say something more like we need help or taking on water or something else.

But again, I don't know the situation.

I don't know what Captain McSorley is going through, but suffice to say, an ominous, if not ambiguous final message.

And you're not wrong to feel that way.

That is a prominent cornerstone of essentially a lot of the theories.

The discussion becomes more of the nuanced perspective on that.

You know, was it mechanical issues?