Trevor Collins

But what's interesting here is that in freshwater, like the Great Lakes, like Lake Superior, they're sharper, faster.

They can hit and strike pretty, pretty bluntly.

And they might only be four to eight seconds apart.

In fact, this is exactly where the Three Sisters comes in.

This is a legendary phenomenon, but it's recognized and measured by science.

This is something that happens specifically in Lake Superior, in which...

The situations can be perfect, that three consecutive massive rogue waves might hit a ship in quick succession, preventing the ship from recovering.

Maybe it can survive one, maybe it can survive two.

But when the third has come, it's jostled the ship once, twice, and before it can recover, the third one hits again.

Yeah, truly.

Now, it also stands to reason, because of what the Anderson captain kind of mentions, that the back of his ship is completely engulfed.

The front of their ship is shoved down.

That wave carries over their ship and off northeast over to the Fitzgerald.

He knows it's going to hit them because they're taking the same route.

Meanwhile, another one hits him, so he knows both are heading after them.

He doesn't mention a third, so it's possible that these are just two enormous waves.

But it's also possible that their ship is shorter,

They might've been less heavy.

There might've been, again, the conditions were just different for the Anderson that they might've survived these two.

Whereas given the period or the repetition of these waves, it might've just been perfect enough for the length, size, weight,