Trevor Collins

depth in the water for the Fitzgerald to be hit in a lethal manner, you know, almost like a freak accident.

Just all these things piled up to create a moment that hopefully, you know, hopefully shouldn't happen.

Maybe shouldn't have happened, but did.

Yeah.

I mean, it stands to reason ultimately that rogue waves would form in a storm like this, even if this wasn't the result of a rogue wave.

Rogue waves aren't as rare as one might think at a glance.

We're learning a lot more about these in recent years, but some experts indicate that given the conditions on Lake Superior that day, if let's just say a storm were to happen for 30 days, it's possible by some experts opinions that rogue waves could happen daily, at least once a day in conditions like this.

And so if this storm was going on and on and on, it would start to become like almost expected that a wave of that caliber could come through.

Yep.

That movie was terrifying.

So kind of closing this theory here.

It is estimated that if these were rogue waves, unlike kind of what the captain of the Anderson pointed out, where he's saying these are like 25-ish feet waves, if these were truly rogue waves that the ship nearby didn't experience, I feel like, one, that would be a little strange, but not impossible.

It would stand to reason that these rogue waves could have been as tall as 60 feet.

D'oh.

Yeah, yeah.

It's believed if that were the case, this would have probably been the final nail in the coffin to an already beaten up Edmund Fitzgerald.

So again, regardless of the other theories, if it is sitting lower in the water, if it is taking on any water, a wave like this would just cap it off.

But kind of in brief here, the final theory is that the bottom of the ship was scraped up after sailing over the shallow ends of the waters, and it took on structural damage that then allowed the ship to take on water, which is ultimately why it sunk.

You would think it would actually.

Christian, I'm curious.