Trevor Collins

Now, as we dove into the theories, of course, as you astutely pointed out, a lot of the theories pivot around the idea of the storm.

It's nearly impossible to get away.

It seems like the storm is the key feature that ultimately ended up creating the shipwreck.

And that seems very obvious at first glance.

But ultimately, the debate

The unanswered portion is in how the flooding of the ship occurred, how the storm bested this ship and not another ship like the Anderson.

What were the specifics ultimately that led to the sinking condition?

And that's kind of the conversation that we're going to have as we flow from one theory to another.

But to this day, the official cause of the sinking of the Edmonds Fitzgerald is technically unsolved.

Again, it's just one of those cases that has the rubber stamp of being unsolved, but it's the nuance.

How, like, all the different theories that attempt to answer it all feel very strong.

And that's kind of why it's unsolved.

So, one theory suggests that the ship sank because it was carrying a load that was too heavy to bear for as long as it was holding it.

In November of 1975, the month that it sank, it was recorded that the ship was a full three feet, three and a quarter inches further down into the water than it was originally designed to be sat at.

So this shows that the weight carried in this ship, you know, we talked about buoyancy and joked about it and stuff, but it might have been holding weight beyond its true engineered capacity.

So it was sitting lower.

And maybe for a normal haul across the waters here, it would have been fine.

But the fact that the storm then came through, it might have exacerbated this small detail, right?

That's that greed, baby.

Time is money.