Trevor Collins

Yeah, and you can see why they went so far north, because had they gone south, they really would have been in the middle of Lake Superior.

So north, they have some topography to help block the wind.

Yeah.

Now, almost a year later, after the discovery of these images and the taking of these photos, it was April 15th, 1977.

The U.S.

Coast Guard releases an official report on the wreckage, entitled, Subject, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Official Number 277437, Sinking in Lake Superior on 10 November 1975 with Loss of Life.

End Subject.

All 29 crew members perished in this shipwreck.

And for those in living memory of this moment, it hit the news media and was broadcasted around the country in a way that really... It was a really terrifying time.

This was...

storms like this are not to be unexpected and we'll talk about that but i'll jump to the point like at least one shipwreck happens i think a week going back decades really but but the yeah but the drama of this one being the largest the incredible loss of life here it's it's kind of what piqued everybody's interest into what was going on and there are some knock-on effects obviously when when you have a moment like this that hits the spotlight so much regulations and other things can update and change but

Suffice to say, for anybody who was living in the mid-70s by many accounts online, it was a truly terrifying as it was upsetting story.

God, I forgot.

Honestly, I forgot about that part.

To like see this ship off.

Again, the parallels to the Titanic are uncanny.

And Task Force, if you want to hear the conspiracies and all of the rigmarole that surrounds the wreckage of the Titanic, we have a whole episode from years ago on that.

But yeah, to see a ship like this off only for it to end like this is, that's horrific.

You're totally right.

Not only are the waves burning and churning, they are tall, you're getting thrown, you're getting dropped.