Divers Reached the Bottom of Lake Superior — And Found Something Unbelievable
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On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald — at 729 feet, once the largest freighter on the Great Lakes — vanished beneath a violent Lake Superior storm just 17 miles from Whitefish Point, taking all 29 crew members with her. For two decades the wreck lay in near-freezing darkness more than 500 feet down, visited only by submersibles and remote cameras that captured haunting details: scattered tools, a lone coffee cup, and in 1994, the preserved remains of a crewman lying beside the hull. Then, in September 1995, technical divers Terrence Tysall and Mike Zlatopolsky did what no human had ever done — they descended through 34-degree water to the clay floor of the lake and touched the Fitzgerald with their own hands. What they found was a ship torn in two, its bow standing upright and its stern flipped upside down, a scene that reignited the debate over how the giant went down so fast that no distress call was ever sent. This is the story of the deadliest mystery on the Great Lakes, and the divers who risked everything to see it for themselves.
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There are occasional very small earthquakes on the northwest shores, believed to be the land rebounding from the Ice Age.
Lets try this, the great glaciers that covered north America, when is the time-line that is really messed up.
The mighty glaciers Did not crush, gouge and cut the great lakes, the region was a great valley region, with people.
How did they get here, why did they come, where did the go.
Then a huge amount of FRESH water flooded the area rather quickly.
Michigan was under salt sea for a huge portion of time, Then evaporated in place, salt mines 1k feet below Detroit and else where maybe the proof.
The being said, how did Petosky Stone remain on the surface. and with the remains of the Porcupine Mountains.
Another question i have, which came first, the forests or the glaciers, if the glaciers filled the great valley, when did they get flooded to great lake size.
It was only after the fresh water flood and the huge lake system form did the 'people' in north America have ships, knowledge of mining, a decent form of governing, and yet disappeared totally leaving 'native' people behind.
AND then came the Copper Culture people, once the great valley region flooded, who worked the copper area, then quit. You did not go into the many problem they in the mining at that time. Sure they used fire and water to smash the rock and free the copper, except, that would need people to gather wood, haul a large amount of water in baskets, and rope that the miners and sailors would need, then the people had to eat, protect the miners from local animals and people. All this in/for a 4-5 month period, then go ... where.
The 1840 mining boom would have destroyed any remain there Copper Culture left behind not in mines, such as a large seasonal town.
Then you missed the traces of a set of locks in at the Soo that might have been found in the 1890s. very old traces. Question- so a set of old Soo locks opened the upper lake to the lower lakes... So? To go where? South to the Mississippi or the Ohio rivers? East to the Niagara falls. The south bound rivers have problems, lake ships are not river ships, nor are they ocean ships. There were people in North America before the 'Native Savages' and the white Europeans how discovered a land that had people already.
Basiclly, the current time like of the Great Lake region is totally messed up
-thank you for confusing more people.
Divers Reached the Bottom of Lake Superior — And Found Something Unbelievable
Explorer Vault
41,711 views
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald — at 729 feet, once the largest freighter on the Great Lakes — vanished beneath a violent Lake Superior storm just 17 miles from Whitefish Point, taking all 29 crew members with her. For two decades the wreck lay in near-freezing darkness more than 500 feet down, visited only by submersibles and remote cameras that captured haunting details: scattered tools, a lone coffee cup, and in 1994, the preserved remains of a crewman lying beside the hull. Then, in September 1995, technical divers Terrence Tysall and Mike Zlatopolsky did what no human had ever done — they descended through 34-degree water to the clay floor of the lake and touched the Fitzgerald with their own hands. What they found was a ship torn in two, its bow standing upright and its stern flipped upside down, a scene that reignited the debate over how the giant went down so fast that no distress call was ever sent. This is the story of the deadliest mystery on the Great Lakes, and the divers who risked everything to see it for themselves.