Trevor Collins

This kind of harkens back to your inclination, Fredo, you know, this isn't necessarily like finding a ship in the ocean, but it's still finding a ship.

They have a decent idea of where this might have happened, right?

Given the route, given the timeline, but it's still quite the hellish endeavor to figure out where under the lake it would be.

Over the course of three days since its arrival on November 14th, the Woodrush Cutter used a side-scan sonar and found two large pieces of debris in the same area.

They conducted another sonar scan from November 22nd through the 25th, and a third was conducted

much later in May of 1976.

This time, however, the Woodrush was operating a Curve 3, the CURV-3, which was an underwater recovery vehicle.

This device captured video footage and over 900 photographs,

of the spot that they were radaring and seeing positive results.

And so they did find, in fact, the wreckage.

And this is where we have countless, well, 900 specifically, photographs of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the bottom of the lake.

It was then on May 20th, 1976, that the words Edmund Fitzgerald could be seen clearly on the stern of the ship upside down at the bottom of Lake Superior.

Now again, thalassophobia beware.

I do have the next three images for you, Fredo, are of that ship.

Different spots of the ship, but all containing the name of the vessel.

Yeah, the stern of the ship was actually completely upside down.

You know, the ship actually broke into two halves.

Much like the Titanic when it went under.

There you go.

And so.