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Trevor Collins

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

You don't need to look at images because I know you're terrified of that and that it would be unfair to make you do.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

But we didn't see anything like that in our research.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

So Christian, I'm just curious if you wouldn't mind being a third eye there.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

But yeah, you're right.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

With this having sank, I'm wondering if we could see on the upturned side of the ship what the damage looked like.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Yeah, now obviously you don't want to hit shallow waters.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

You would definitely take on some damage.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Now, would it be sink the ship damage?

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

That's the question.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

McSorley, as a captain, knew not to cross over this particular area of the lake because he knew of the shallow depths.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

So this starts to paint, to say it again, a vivid image of what's going on.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

People theorize within this kind of final theory that he likely would have been disoriented from being 24 hours awake without sleep.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

It was also likely under these conditions that he was suffering from something called motion fatigue due to the constant rocking on this boat caused by the storms.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Yeah.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

And it would be like riding a roller coaster continuously for several hours.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Eventually your muscles would just like want to give out.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Yeah, we're handling it, you know.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

You know, that to me, I'm making an assumption, paints an image of something happening that they're taking care of, maybe bilging some water out.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

But the critical failure or the surprise wave, the rogue wave, really does also make sense in the sense of like, well, we're handling it.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald | What Caused This Tragic Sinking in the Great Lakes?

Well, then how, you know, something quick must have happened.