Gordon died recently and the church that rung the bells for the crew rang 30 times, 29 for the crew and one for gordon.

@MarkSangamon

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I hadn't heard that.

@goawayleavemealone2880

Жыл бұрын

This makes me simultaneously very happy and very sad. Sad about all the loss of life, with another tally being added, but happy that not only will Gordon Lightfoot be remembered along with the men and women of the Edmund Fitzgerald. To not be forgotten is a sort of gift.

@amandaaustin1763

10 ай бұрын

I knew this but reading it again made me tear up a bit. So respectful.

@MrMrMrprofessor

9 ай бұрын

​@@goawayleavemealone2880I believe there were only men on board the Edmund Fitzgerald.

@goawayleavemealone2880

9 ай бұрын

@MrMrMrprofessor - That is true, but their wives and daughters, would be the women of the Edmund Fitzgerald... they were also impacted by this terrible tragedy. Also I'm not going to leave the women out of these sentiments... because I'm not all about being moaned by Internet Karens.

Other lakes: chill, soft, nice places for a family picnic Lake Superior: *COME AT ME, BRO, I'M FCKN JACKED*

@rlicon1970

4 жыл бұрын

Roid raging Lake Superior. 💪🏻

@roefane2258

4 жыл бұрын

Lol accurate

@getoutofmyface

4 жыл бұрын

I was about to thank my lucky stars that I grew up by Lake Michigan and not Lake Superior, but then I looked up the data and found out that Lake Michigan is, in fact, the deadliest of all the Great Lakes. So if Superior is the roided up bruiser, Michigan is the friendly looking lady with a bloody knife hidden behind her back.

@SavageBunnyGetMoney

4 жыл бұрын

Me : give me your dead 😡 Lake Superior : Nah 😂

@danielmccoy8875

4 жыл бұрын

Having grown up on the shores of Lake Erie I can tell you none of them are to be trifled with..they can whip up a storm in no time and actually have their own unique weather systems..anyone who doubts this look up the Daniel Morrell she went down in a storm in Erie with one survivor.

By the way, Gordon Lightfoot did ask permission from all the families of the lost crewmen to release his song. They all agreed after hearing the song, undoubtedly as it honored the men and the ship.

@willasyn3136

11 ай бұрын

RIP Gordon Lightfoot 😢

@lizfowle2473

11 ай бұрын

I love Gordon Lightfoot his music is beautiful 🥹💓

@circuitry400

11 ай бұрын

I’m glad he asked for permission, that was very respectful of him.

@marjoriejohnson6535

10 ай бұрын

All of the profit made from that song went to the families that lost loved ones .

@eburel506

10 ай бұрын

Great song.

The word he was looking for is "folk". Lightfoot didn't glamorize the Fitz. He turned the story into a folk tale song. And those are generationally powerful. His song will reflect the take for generations.

@LordMizumaru

8 ай бұрын

A true bard

@Shadoweclipse1386

6 ай бұрын

I think the word he was looking for was "notarize", not famous or infamous, though infamous kinda fits too.

@rainjar

5 ай бұрын

"memorialise"?

@AC-th4ci

2 ай бұрын

It truly is a folk song; it's such a huge part of Great Lakes culture, the same as Irish or Southern folk music. I grew up on Lake Michigan and I've been hearing it since I was young, it really encompasses the reverence for the lakes and awareness of death that everyone who lives on them knows well. I do wish there were more "Lake Shanties" out there, there are so many powerful stories from the Great Lakes that deserve to be shared and remembered. The sinking of the Rouse Simmons (the Christmas Tree ship), the Battle of Mackinac Island in 1812, the ancient native carvings and hunting trails at the bottom from before the lakes existed... Gordon's legacy here should be continued.

They gotta stop building “the largest ship.” It doesn’t end well.

@anthonyhayes1267

3 жыл бұрын

USS Gerald R. Ford is doing just fine 🇺🇲

@kingjustin1993

3 жыл бұрын

all ships can be the largest ship if the prior largest ship sinks.

@nistheelf

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they should try and build the smallest ship 🧐

@vault42overseer91

3 жыл бұрын

"the largest spaceship ever" it ain't gonna end well

@nistheelf

3 жыл бұрын

XxSavoyRigbyxX 🚢 I’m on board 😂 ... sorry I had to

Lake Superior is literally just an ocean that's playing dress up as a lake

@screaminggecko7660

4 жыл бұрын

If it were salt or brackish water it would almost certainly be considered and inland sea. Its got several times the surface area of the sea of marmara and has similar average and max depths

@catmix

4 жыл бұрын

I think that the "Great Lakes" should be considered in-land freshwater oceans. They're so monstrously large, and have such dangerous conditions, that they can hardly be considered standard lakes.

@SovereignStatesman

4 жыл бұрын

@@catmix Dude, an "inland freshwater" body is a LAKE. And an ocean, by definition, is NOT inland. So it would be a freshwater SEA---i.e. a LAKE.

@SovereignStatesman

4 жыл бұрын

@@screaminggecko7660 Yeah that's a little difficult when it's 1000 feet above sea-level.

@JonDoe-ef4tz

4 жыл бұрын

They pretty much look like oceans. Ive been swimming lake MI before. The water was cold as hell and it was in June.

I live near Lake Superior and a lot of people underestimate it. Sadly at least a few people die each year (mostly tourists). One year there was a guy who got pulled out by the current and got swept to an island with an abandon light house. At the light house he found some old food and a life vest. After waiting awhile to see if a boat would happen to come by he decided to frick it and try to swim back. Astonishingly he swam miles back to shore and he was a heavy dude too!

@concettaworkman5895

Жыл бұрын

33 or more die where I live on the Southern shore of Lake Michigan. It's warm and full of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois tourists, and they just don't get it. It is usually a tourist who dies. They go in while I won't unless I have a boogie board and life jacket. I warn them, but they look at me with deer-in-the-headlights eyes. They'll even walk on the jetties with a stroller and baby while the waves are washing over the cement. WTH! You wouldn't get me out there!

@psychosorcerer9438

Жыл бұрын

@@concettaworkman5895 Ohio lake erie resident here. I keep telling tourists not to go into erie because of the constant riptides and deadly algae. Also the intense rogue waves during storms.

@psychosorcerer9438

Жыл бұрын

Especially with how quickly a storm can sneak up on you in erie.

@shaunstrasser1

Жыл бұрын

I lived very near Lake Michigan in Navy Housing in North Chicago Illinois from 1977 to 1980 and storms do come up hard and fast and can last from minutes to days.

@virginiapursley7082

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful tribute and very informative, thank you!

I never knew of the Fitz until Gordon Lightfoot wrote about it. I understand he was upset at the lack of wide coverage of the event, so he did extensive research to write the song accurately. He also donated all proceeds from the song to the families of the Fitz crew. That is real respect.

@austinkonrad

10 ай бұрын

Not exactly the lack of wide coverage exactly, but the fact that in the paper read the news about it relegated it to like the 9th page and had numerous misspellings which upset him.

@user-dv6ni1sh4d

8 ай бұрын

In the early 1970s the Fitz would sale into the Detroit river through Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River. there is a State park in Algonac, MI that has both picnic area then a camping area where id you get a good spot you can see the freighters. My parents had a travel trailer and would spend from Friday night to Sunday at the park. and quite often you would be able to see the Ftix sail past.

@alexmartinez5859

8 ай бұрын

Not only as accurately as possible, he changed some lyrics (although did leave partial truths and lies) in live shows whenever they contradicted reality. The church which he described as “musty” became “rustic,” and “At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in; he said..." became "At 7 p.m. it grew dark, it was then he said.…”

Two places that dont give up the dead: Mt. Everest and Lake Superior

@warrmalaski8570

4 жыл бұрын

They scower Everest every 10 years for bodies. For by law no one is allowed to be berried on Everest.

@iambiggus

4 жыл бұрын

The dead... and the garbage.

@iambiggus

4 жыл бұрын

@@warrmalaski8570 No they don't. There are over 200 bodies still on Everest, and there's a good chance they will probably stay there.

@zach_____9266

4 жыл бұрын

@@warrmalaski8570 They probably collect some bodies but many of the bodies are too high on the mountain to be worth recovering, the recovery crew would like die trying to get the bodies down

@nickdouglas736

4 жыл бұрын

The Sahara laughing in the distance

I asked my mom if she recognized Caitlin and she said "ah the madam of the morgue" and honestly that sounds so badass

@rockingrandmaof2

3 жыл бұрын

Caitlin is both brilliant and beautiful! Something to be aspired to, ladies!

@scootergirl3662

3 жыл бұрын

Now I am just angry I didn't think of that first

@chelsear9483

3 жыл бұрын

Love!

@sheilagravely5621

3 жыл бұрын

And I think she looks great without makeup. Loveing the natural look.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@IntellectualCuriosity

3 жыл бұрын

@@sheilagravely5621 she looks sooooo much better without the 50’s pinup ‘look’.

I know someone that was working in a retrieval team after Hurricane Katrina. He told me he has reoccurring nightmares of bodies floating around him because of that experience. He saw entire families. I can't believe that was almost 20 years ago now.

Portuguese here. Our media has, for more than 500 years, been mostly about our sorrowful relationship with the sea. Theres a line that read " oh salty sea, how much of you is made of Portuguese tears". A lot of respect to these people.

@hopsiepike

Жыл бұрын

I was taught that the meaning of saudade, a word hard to translate into English, is built into the maritime history of Portugal. The longing for beloved sailors who may never return.

@wolftamer5463

Ай бұрын

@@hopsiepikeI’ve only heard of that word because of a song from Resident Evil 2.

Calling them "lakes" is a lot like calling an alligator a lizard. They are more like inland, freshwater seas. This is a fantastic video, I enjoyed it.

@coppersandsprite

4 жыл бұрын

They are clasified as lakes due to being above sea level mostly. Maybe we need a new classification.

@kentcarter835

4 жыл бұрын

@@coppersandsprite I didn't know that. You know...you hear the word "lake" and picture a place where you can see the other shore. I live I Texas, and there is only one natural lake in the entire state. Caddo Lake on the Texas Louisiana border. Cheers, and thanks for the reply!

@coppersandsprite

4 жыл бұрын

@@kentcarter835 , you're welcome

@TreeGod.

4 жыл бұрын

Kent Carter how do you feel about the 2nd amendment?

@kentcarter835

4 жыл бұрын

@@TreeGod. I'm not sure how my comments and the replies to them are connected to your question. If you'll elaborate on your post I'll do my best to answer. Cheers.

The captain “Ahh this is my last trip” Lake Superior “yes yes it is”

@Sarah-mp3vu

3 жыл бұрын

This is borderline insensitive but I couldn’t help but laugh 💀

@jamesrogers2963

3 жыл бұрын

Same as happened to Captain Edward Smith on the Titanic many years before. I think I shall refrain from any "this is my last..." statements or notions. Seems they do not go well...

@shane99ca

3 жыл бұрын

Grim.

@anonymousperson1987

3 жыл бұрын

i’m going to hell for laughing but LMAO

@_Spy_

3 жыл бұрын

It's Titanic all over again.

Came back to rewatch and say rest in peace to Gordon Lightfoot, artist of the song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. He was born on November 17, 1938 in Orillia, Canada and passed away on May 1, 2023 in Toronto, Canada.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

R.I.P, Gordon. Thanks for the music.

@mikececcon6503

10 ай бұрын

And let’s not forget about the heroes of the Titanic

@willemthijssen1082

6 ай бұрын

That day, the bell of the Mariner's Church of Detroit rang 30 times, 29 for the crew, once for Gordon Lightfoot

"Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours? " G.Lightfoot This line has always hit me hard. I've been in pretty rough seas. Rough enough to feel this line in my soul.

The Gordon Lightfoot song didn't "glamorize" it (in my opinion) It made it a folk legend, and in turn immortalized the crew.

@HTNPSullivan

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I don't think he meant "glamorize," he even said he was groping for the right word, and "immortalized" is a better choice. Of all people, I don't think he considers what happened romantic or glamorous.

@hokutoulrik7345

3 жыл бұрын

His song is a funeral hymn for the crew in my opinion. He tells their story and conveys the loss of the crew.

@lagodifuoco313

3 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@RealWolfmanDan

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jennifergridley8111

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. My son is 21 and the song is a favorite of his, but because he feels it immortalized the crew and how dangerous their jobs were/are. And it led him to study more about the Fitzgerald and other ships of the Great Lakes and their histories.

Does anyone else get the impression that she would be awesome to have around at a party? The conversations would be just legendary.

@duewhit310

4 жыл бұрын

Mortician soirees.

@MrIsaacshepard1981

4 жыл бұрын

oh hell yah

@LovelyThought123

4 жыл бұрын

James Walker bold of you to assume you’d be invited

@abortedphoenix

4 жыл бұрын

@James Walker you must be fun at parties.

@furmidable5498

4 жыл бұрын

@@abortedphoenix that would imply that someone would want to invite him

I just heard from my nephew that 29 bells are rung to honor the dead of The Edmond Fitzgerald when Gordon Lightfoot recently died, they rang the bell 30 times to pay tribute to his life and to honor his death, which gives me the chills, RIP

@robertyoung3992

10 ай бұрын

Edmund*

@allie1953

5 ай бұрын

I got the chills too and got misty-eyed.

@ace_trace_2237

3 ай бұрын

The bell in the mariners cathedral in Detroit yes

@MarieJackson-sp3be

Ай бұрын

That is beyond kind by that church. Thank you.

Rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot! Your legend will live on in Minnesota!

@kineahora8736

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Gordo is a legend, just like the Edmund Fitz

@antonspivack3928

Жыл бұрын

Thumbs up if Gordon Lightfoot's recent death brought you here.

@zack5079

11 ай бұрын

His legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

The part about the poor woman who threw a message in a bottle into the lake was also very sad, starving and freezing to death, tell my mom and dad about me. God.

@sarahcline8488

3 жыл бұрын

I hope the parents never was told about the letter the sorrow of that would hurt them far more then letting there imagination tell their hearts what happened.

@452trucker

3 жыл бұрын

Naval lore says it's bad luck to have a woman on board, because the male crew affectionately call their ship an "SHE" and she is the only one they care about.

@steveguzman6141

2 жыл бұрын

Holee shit I found an article that says they found her skeleton on the island and they knew it was Alice bc she actually had a full set of natural teeth unlike the men on the ship who had lost most of their teeth from tobacco chewing icck.

@HTNPSullivan

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveguzman6141 Wow, that's some interesting trivia!

@guineapiglady2841

2 жыл бұрын

What woman?

That’s a damn ocean in disguise..those waves are crazy

@floram9481

3 жыл бұрын

To my knowledge, apparently, the great lakes are essentially a sea because of how they and their weather behave, size, etc, but they aren't classified as one because they aren't all at sea level. So 100% yes.

@SovereignStatesman

3 жыл бұрын

@@floram9481 No, it's because they're made of FRESH WATER.

@TheCanadiangirl4

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when the November witch hits. I live on Lake Ontario

@StonerBaer

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Minnesota. Can confirm - Lake Superior is pretty much an inland Sea. Even during the Summers, the water is fucking COLD.

@Alexandria197

3 жыл бұрын

Lake Superior is like a fresh water ocean.

As someone who 1) is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of deep water, 2) has a healthy respect for the dead/ corpses, and 3) lives exactly one (1) block away from one of the Great Lakes.... Lake Superior is my literal nightmare. Edit to say RIP to John's Uncle John. It must be absolutely awful to die like that and it must be awful to lose a loved one like that, especially when it was their last voyage. I hope Uncle John and the crew are at peace.

@crowboy0666

Жыл бұрын

i live like dead center of michigan and i have a rlly bad tendency to like , normalize the lakes coz for us they're a thing michigan has , but they're not as constant , and then i see smth like this n i'm like oh yeah they are fuckin batshit huh.

@JohnnyBGood11

Жыл бұрын

It's not a big deal because people have died everywhere on this earth, people pass over gravesites every day and you don't even know it and people take pictures. And I really don't think the people that have passed away really care about the site and they died well before their bodies hit the floor of the lake. People need to lighten up.

@RobinMayhall

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnnyBGood11 How about you do you and let other people feel what they feel? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@JohnnyBGood11

Жыл бұрын

@@RobinMayhall People today overuse the word feel or my feelings who cares...people say "I feel it should be grave site", I say who cares those people are not there that died and who cares what you feel.

@marciawalden

Жыл бұрын

I think it was their “last voyage” because it sank, not because it was the last time it was to go out.

I went to Pearl Harbor in early 2000's and when I went on the Arizona memorial, I felt like I was standing on top of a tomb and felt very solemn. I believe the 29 sunken crew of the Fitz should be as respected as those who lost their lives on December 7, 1941. Respect the lost.

My aunt drowned in Dale Hollow Lake in Tennessee. After a week we had given up hope that we would find her. I turned to stories about Superior to make sense of why she never surfaced. 2 years later, a diver on a training dive found her. She was in a 130 ft cold pocket and was preserved enough that she was easily identified.

@samuel-zb4qn

3 жыл бұрын

Im so sorry :(

@brooklynyancey2536

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuel-zb4qn It's alright. That was definitely a phone call I was never expecting but it gave my family much needed closure.

@MannulusPallidus

3 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynyancey2536 Glad you got what you needed to move on. It's always tough to lose someone, but it has to help to know what happened.

@SovereignStatesman

3 жыл бұрын

Damn I would hate to be that diver. One thing I always feared was a fresh corpse, it's not the same as a few bones in a shipwreck, like I'd seen in med school.

@asherklooz6627

3 жыл бұрын

I go there every summer. I didnt realize it could be a sad memories for others. Sorry for your loss

Honestly, if I died on that ship, I don’t think I’d mind having a guest over occasionally.

@Nomadcreations

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Respectfull "Visitation" To The Boat is same as a Cemetary To pay respects

@SovereignStatesman

3 жыл бұрын

Eric Southard: you don't know the fame of the song, there would be people ALL over it.

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nomadcreations The question is only: Who controls that the visitation is respectful? On a cemetary, you have staff and maybe a guard, but under water?

@KlaxontheImpailr

3 жыл бұрын

@@johannageisel5390 didn’t she say in the video that there were sensors near the wreck that alerted the coast guard of illegal divers?

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@KlaxontheImpailr Ah, right. Yes, one could keep those and require everybody who wants to dive down there to register beforehand. But still, somebody would have dive down with them to check whether or not the visitors behave respectfully.

My grandfather was a first mate on these freighters for three decades, retiring in 1990 as one of the most popular and well loved sailors in the entire Kinsman fleet. His ship went out in this storm and they hugged the shoreline rather than take the lanes in the middle of the lake, obviously surviving. He died in 1999 after spending the decade as a loving grandfather and philanthropist to many struggling families in the area. Gordon Lightfoot’s song played at his funeral.

Can we all give a R.I.P. to Lightfoot. What a great song that gave us all wonder of the lakes! Rest in peace

"The lake hates you and wants you to die." The best advice I ever got about Lake Superior.

@davidhollenshead4892

4 жыл бұрын

$hit you could have said that about the Stable Flies of the upper peninsula of Michigan & Ontario. But the flies only want your blood, all of it...

@SewardWriter

4 жыл бұрын

No, the lake loves you, and keeps what she loves. By any means necessary.

@sigvar6795

4 жыл бұрын

It is pure human conceit and arrogance to think that the lake even acknowledges your insignificant presence in the universe.

@natmorse-noland9133

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's more accurate to say the Lake gives absolutely zero fucks about you and whether you live or die. Do you care about a mite living on your skin? Do you even notice when you squash it? Probably not!

@afrog2666

4 жыл бұрын

@@sigvar6795 Not so much conceit and arrogance as desperation and fear imo, but you know, Jung works too lol. DENIAL, is the word I`m looking for ;)

The Arthur M. Anderson is the most highly revered ship on the lakes. The only ship that turned back in the storm that sank the Fitz. Searched until daylight in that storm. To this day, when the Anderson passes thought the Sault Ste. Marie locks, the lock master and all ships in the area lower their flags in honor of the Anderson's heroic attempt to find the Fitzgerald. That's respect, in every sense of the term.

@Mike-tg7dj

2 жыл бұрын

Profound, very profound.

@nrgltwrkr2225

2 жыл бұрын

Two ships braved the storm a second time to go back out and search for the "Fitz": The Arthur M. Anderson, Capt. Bernie Cooper, and The William Clay Ford, Capt. Jim Erickson. They searched and criss-crossed the area all night, supported by Coast Guard helicopter spotlights. At around 11am the next morning, the third mate of the Anderson spotted the crumpled half of a life boat from the Fitz. They were later joined by the USS Woodrush, a Coast Guard vessel, Captained by a well-seasoned Capt. Jim Hobaugh, they continued to search for three days, in what he stated, were "some of roughest seas I've ever been in in my life, including the North Atlantic and hurricanes in the Gulf."

@communitypark2313

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the story of the honors shown the Anderson to this day. Very moving...

@Bald_Cat2007

Жыл бұрын

The Arthur M Anderson and William Clay Ford were sister ships. Both apart of the 8 AAA class lake freighters.

@atticusbrown9154

Жыл бұрын

The Arthur M Anderson is one of my favorite ships. She looks nice, and has a storied, heroic career.

You forgot that they cut out her bell and replaced it with a replica with the names of the crew. The original bell is at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. I went there when I was a kid, back during my shipwreck fascination phase

@DanaDoesStuff

Жыл бұрын

She mentions this at approximately the 28:30 mark, and the bell was shown earlier in the video at the museum.

@wrenchrat

Жыл бұрын

I visited that museum as a kid too! Very cool place

This tragedy would have been forgotten long ago had it not been for Gordon Lightfoot. I hope people know that. He is one of my heros (listening since 1969).

@toddprater14

Жыл бұрын

He got great songs that’s for sure..

@kristenirwin2933

Жыл бұрын

Except for those of us who are born and raised in Michigan. I was raised on the story. The cook was supposed to be my godfather. Later on, I worked on the freights.

@demonseed032

Жыл бұрын

Not by some of us.

@pageribe2399

Жыл бұрын

​@Kristen Irwin & @indiejen56 Sorry, I meant for the rest of the world, not those directly involved.

@marniekilbourne608

11 ай бұрын

I can say that most people that live in Michigan are very aware of it. Not everyone learns about it from the song.

"The lake was... having a moment." Yeah it does that sometimes

@RaderizDorret

3 жыл бұрын

It's Superior. It's never *not* having a moment. Even when it's calm, it's just luring you in.

@centaurithething1649

3 жыл бұрын

So lake superior cant have her period in peace? Okay

@swirrllfolfsky9803

3 жыл бұрын

Lake Superior is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I love kayaking and fishing on superior.

@benedictdwyer2608

3 жыл бұрын

@@centaurithething1649 yeah, NORMALIZE LAKE PERIODS

@itsjustme7487

2 жыл бұрын

@@swirrllfolfsky9803 Lake Michigan can and does have tantrums as well. Awesome to watch from a distance and NOT from one of the many piers.

My brother is a diver who reclaims Bodies from all types of waters, dark, ocean, lake, murky... etc....and the stories he tells (respectfully) are very haunting.

@madeleinekennedy7303

3 жыл бұрын

bro imagine doing that I'd be shitting myself

@Barbarra63297

3 жыл бұрын

I was given the opportunity to accompany a recovery diver back in the early 70's at a quarry that took a lot of teenagers lives due to large shelves that went very deep into the walls of the quarry. When he found it I took one look and knew that I would not be pursuing a career in body recovery, my hat is off to your brother and all divers who undertake this sad and necessary task.

@laurastack4633

3 жыл бұрын

Garrett!!!!!!! Happy to see you on this side of youtube 😂

@cait2994

3 жыл бұрын

It's so tragic but interesting

@wioi

3 жыл бұрын

Ooh I know who you are. Lol. Never knew your brother has such an awesome job

Something I found while reading about the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge: “ The bridge can be raised to its full height of 135 feet in about a minute, and is raised about 5,000 times per year.[8] The span is about 390 feet (120 meters). As ships pass, there is a customary horn-blowing sequence that is copied back. The bridge's "horn" is actually made up of two Westinghouse Airbrake locomotive horns.[9] Long-short-short is known as the Captain's Salute and is the most common of the ship signal exchanges. However, on November 10th, the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with all hands in Lake Superior, the Lift Bridge exchanges a special salute with the SS Arthur M. Anderson when she comes into Duluth Harbor in honor of the Fitzgerald and its crew as the Anderson was the last lake freighter to have contact with the Fitzgerald before she went down and was the first vessel on scene to search in vain for survivors. The exchange is known as the master salute consisting of the horn sequence of long-long-long-short-short.”

@Bryan-od7nv

Жыл бұрын

I remember being down there in the early 1990s when some poor woman was crushed when she panicked after the bridge started rising with her on it.

It’s nice to hear people who aren’t from here have reverence for Lake Superior!

Pennywise: "Everybody floats..." Lake Superior: Hold my beer...

@jessebrown9186

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment here

@lisaclark1181

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks..I was due for a good chuckle!

@ssaliormoon15

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@giventogrow8533

4 жыл бұрын

Bahahhaha

@dollmore.8584

4 жыл бұрын

Did you actually watch the whole video she told you the reasons frozen bodies won't float😔 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝

"The people who live there call her the biggest and baddest of the lakes." Superior, if you will...

@FrancesShear

3 жыл бұрын

She must be good at being a tour guide too then.

@dn9463

3 жыл бұрын

and thats why its called the Superior ...

@maloo538

3 жыл бұрын

I love how the “j” in your pfp looks like ن

@wanderinghistorian

3 жыл бұрын

@@maloo538 Thanks for noticing! It's actually supposed to be an Arabic N. www.i-am-n.com/

@courtneyh9153

3 жыл бұрын

I live here! It’s an amazing place to live!

I grew up in MN and spent time in Duluth each summer.. The Edmund Fitzgerald has always fascinated me since the wreck. I've read and watched everything I can find about it. I saw Gordon Lightfoot perform The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald for the very first time. He said he felt that he had perform it for the first time to a MN audience. By the end of the song there wasn't a dry eye in the room including Gordon Lightfoot as he responded to our response and he struggled to finish the song. Thanks for this excellent coverage .

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

👋i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world! Happy New year 🎆 🙏🌍 I'm originally from Canada currently living in California ☀️☀️and you where are you from if i may ask?💭

@nancyjanzen5676

Жыл бұрын

I used to see the Fitz when she docked at Jones Island, Milwaukee.

Lake MIchigan is also a beast. In one week in October, 1929, she took 55 lives from two ships that sank in gales within a few miles of Milwaukee.

I think the biggest misnomer is “Lake” for all the Great Lakes. They’re REALLY inland seas.

@TF2CrunchyFrog

3 жыл бұрын

The only reason the Great Lakes are called "lakes" and not "seas", compared to the Red Sea and the Black Sea (which is an inland sea) is that they contain freshwater, not salt water.

@mangot589

3 жыл бұрын

CrunchyFrog That does makes sense. But, They’re just so big! Like a sea.

@fendranm2914

3 жыл бұрын

Lake Baikal in Russia, too.

@spartiate567

3 жыл бұрын

The usage o teh English word "lake" always means fresh water. I can't help wonder if the English were aware of the Great Lakes a thousand years earlier, they may have come up with another term. For I must agree with Mango. Technically, they are "lakes" by the customary usage of the word, but by common sense, the are in fact inland seas.

@VictoriaPatricia

3 жыл бұрын

@Anne Frank ah, so the Pacific is a sea now and the Caspian Sea isn't?

A friend of mine, Bear, an able body seaman out of Traverse City, MI, was scheduled to sail on the Fitz but got the flu the day before she sailed and was replaced by someone else. Bear never complains about getting the flu as it saved his life.

@ayasakurahana

4 жыл бұрын

Do tell more

@michelehood8837

4 жыл бұрын

That is amazing 😳

@pokala1828

4 жыл бұрын

TreverSlyFox No proof

@pokala1828

4 жыл бұрын

@LUKE COOPER True,i do use reddit.

@lizzdoe2821

4 жыл бұрын

TreverSlyFox Thats deep...

When I saw Lake Superior for the first time, I kept asking my cousin are you sure that’s a lake? It looks like the ocean! It was incredible. The Gordon Lightfoot song did pop into our heads. 😢

As unimaginable as it is if you've ever been out sailing on a lake when the wind comes up you get a real rush and a real respect for water. The ocean is huge but the Lakes can be just as violent.

@ascent8487

Жыл бұрын

Never been to Lake Superior but I have been to Lake Michigan and spent a lot of time at Tahoe. Sometimes the conditions on these lakes could easily fool a person into believing they are at sea if they didn’t know better.

@silva7493

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen the Great Lakes. I've lived my life alongside the Pacific Ocean (I don't see what's so pacific about it). Watching recordings of storm conditions over the Great Lakes, It wouldn't take much to convince me they behaved just like oceans.

@wrenchrat

Жыл бұрын

Grew up in Michigan. The Great Lakes are basically freshwater oceans. Not to be trifled with.

@nancyjanzen5676

Жыл бұрын

​@@silva7493 the ocean waves roll. The waves on the Great Lakes come at tou from multiple directions. Salties get seasick on the lakes.

@fart63

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@nancyjanzen5676I get seasick on both 😂

My best friend spent about 12 years on the Arthur M. Anderson beginning in the late 80's. He said every time they pass over where the Fitz went down, they rang the ship's bell 29 times. RIP to all sailors lost in the Great Lakes.

@robertstallard7836

2 жыл бұрын

Yet they didn't bother for any of the other 350-odd wrecks? The power of publicity!

@michiganriverman

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertstallard7836 The Anderson had a special connection to the Fitz. I take it you didn't know that. Are you foolish enough to suggest they should acknowledge every wreck on their voyage?

@TheKARI31

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertstallard7836 I think they said about 6000 for all the Great Lakes 550 for superior alone.

@KimFsharpHarp

Жыл бұрын

“Superior they say never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early..”

@DarthPhallix

Жыл бұрын

@@robertstallard7836 You do realize the connection between those two ships, yeah? The Anderson was right behind her when she went down and essentially sailed right over the two halves of the Fitz while the men in her engine room could very well have still been alive for a few more minutes at the bottom of the lake. Many ships, I’m told, ring their bells with respect as they sail over the wreck.

When I was in Oceanography my professor informed us that even though they were “lakes” the Great Lakes were collectively studied as an inland sea

@daniellegroves4830

3 жыл бұрын

I had to write a paper on the geography of Indiana. Once upon a time we and the nearby states were part of a great coral reef. Thats why the limestone has all coral and shells. I guess you can view the great lakes as all that remains of it...it just kept its temperment all these years.

@paleozoey

3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellegroves4830 not really. the oceans that once covered the midwestern states are 300+ million years old at the least, and most of the marine fossils found in indiana and ohio are well over 400 million years old. the lakes, on the other hand, are the scars of the last ice age- gouged out by a mile-high glacier that was at its greatest extent some 12,000 years ago- very recent, geologically speaking. despite having no continuity geologically, though these glacial lakes do carry on the spirit of that old paleozoic sea, i suppose.

@daniellegroves4830

3 жыл бұрын

@@paleozoey I stand corrected, thanks I should have known that.

@KhanMann66

3 жыл бұрын

granabam Ooof you’re off about 200-300 million years. Western Interior Seaway exists about 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. You’re hitting Carboniferous period to Devonian.

@paleozoey

3 жыл бұрын

@@KhanMann66 and there were seas there back then. The WIS didn't even cover that part of the midwest, that was all land in the cretaceous. There was definitely sea in the Ohio river valley in the mid-paleozoic, and the fact that Cleveland is full of cladoselache and dunkelosteus fossils only proves my point further. i've found marine fossils (mostly horn corals and fragmented brachiopod shells) in eastern ohio myself.

The absolute gut punch of nostalgia I got when The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald kicked in cannot be understated. What a fantastic and fitting song, RIP Gordon.

as a wisconsinite whose grandparents are from the ashland area, it’s always fun seeing other people discover how powerful the great lakes are, especially superior! we grew up hearing stories about all the shipwrecks, as well as the respect we had to have for the lake. there’s a reason it’s called Gichigami, we have to respect it or it won’t respect us

Me: I hate creepy, underwater stuff Alsp me: *Watches a video about creepy, underwater stuff*

@punisherhulk7031

4 жыл бұрын

It fascinates and terrifies me at the same time.

@kaylynn1702

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason I get creeped out the most by underwater statues

@PixieoftheWood

4 жыл бұрын

Made by someone who admits she also hates creepy underwater stuff.

@Jules-pr9kn

4 жыл бұрын

This is legit me I have thalassophobia, submechanophobia, necrophobia, and ichthyophobia, but I'm also fascinated by all of those things, so I compulsively look things up specifically to creep myself out, and then have panic attacks when I try to sleep at night :)

@L337Dratini

4 жыл бұрын

Me: *regularly has nightmares of deep waters* Also me: *watches the same video as you about creepy, underwater stuff right before bed* (Edit: likes are at 420 now friend, blaze it :D )

I'm from Denmark and out of curiosity I discovered that Lake superior is almost twice as large as my country! The lake is around 82.000 square kilometres while my country is almost 43.000 square kilometres! All in all - that is a freaky big lake!

@MrMitchellw16

2 жыл бұрын

It also has an average depth of 489 feet (149 meters).... average

@camisthejester

2 жыл бұрын

A lake could swallow up our country? By the gods, we really are a tiny speck on the map

@DTavona

2 жыл бұрын

13,000 there was a sixth lake called Lake Aggasiz. It was bigger than ALL the other great lakes combined!

@DTavona

2 жыл бұрын

There was a sixth lake thirteen thousand years ago, Lake Aggasiz that was bigger than all of the other great lakes *combined*.

@troytellsit493

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has grown up in Michigan, the power of the Great Lakes is astounding

I've never been to Superior, but I've been to her much smaller sister-Erie-and I was in awe of her. I would **never** underestimate her biggest sister.

As someone who lives not even five minutes away from the lake, I've always had a heavy amount of respect for this lake. I literally grew up listening to the Gordan Lightfoot song, and I've known people who have almost drowned to the lake. My sister's best friend, who I consider family, almost drowned when she went out on it's ice and it broke underneath her. I go to the lake really often in the summers, and even then it's too cold to survive in for probably more than a half hour. Lake Superior truly is a lake that needs to be treated with the same amount of respect that you'd extend to a riptide in the ocean.

@cindyj5522

6 ай бұрын

I have gone swimming in Superior in August, just up to my waist. Bone chilling cold in high summer and currents that are never safe even in shallow water. She gives nothing at all unless she has to and even then, she makes you pay.

@pyrock0227

5 ай бұрын

My family used to charter a sailboat (not big, usually a 40 footer) and sail the Apostle Islands in the summer. I've swam in those waters and you do NOT want to stay out there long. One time we tried to skirt the edge of the sheltered waters to take the better winds between two of the outer islands. Worst sailing experience of my life. We cut sail and turned back about the time even my dad started getting seasick, and things were bouncing around the berths. Honestly terrifying, and it shifts so fast.

Dude's talking about wanting to dive the site but also respecting the graves reminds me of something an archaeologist said about its being very difficult to distinguish between archaeology and grave robbing.

@TwoCatsInLondon

2 жыл бұрын

There’s that, but people like to visit their family’s graves, clean the headstones and leave flowers. That would be difficult to do when those graves are underwater. I think maybe for John that would be part of the draw, too, rather than grave robbery/archeology.

@anitaevans5361

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly…thank u Xaviotes Harris 👍🏼

@URBANSPCMN

2 жыл бұрын

The idea that a dead person has a infinite monopoly on the land they died on/were buried on is one the most ridiculous things humanity has ever fabricated. Dead people are dead. Its that simple. They don't own anything. To believe they do is purely immature and unreasonable. A truly responsible person understands the earth is for the future generations and nobody else. Graves are an archaic tradition that needs to go away.

@alwayslernin4400

2 жыл бұрын

@@URBANSPCMN plus there's the worms...ick!

@shedoesconcerts5762

2 жыл бұрын

@@URBANSPCMN I don't see that case being made anywhere that doesn't have historical significance. These people have living relatives, it's not at all absurd that their gravesite be protected this way while they remain in living memory

And people wonder why I have a HUGE fear of swimming in water I can’t see the bottom of

@acarolinalobato

3 жыл бұрын

RevolutionTwirlerYT Same!

@rccrn0228

3 жыл бұрын

Super duper same! Eeeeeeekkkkkkk!

@stephielulu9096

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I shuddered all the way through this. Lakes with huge waves WTF

@lorabetht9206

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!! I was raised by my grandparents and my Nannie told me “stories” like “snakes build their nests in the lake and if they bite you you won’t make it back to the dock”?!? She meant well but we love near a bunch of lakes and I’ve never once swam in them... fishing on a boat is ok 👍🏻 and I have to admit I’ve tried to keep my kids from getting in the lakes as well (at least with no life jacket on- my husband offsets the fear 😉)

@davidsiler5505

3 жыл бұрын

Do you mind? You're standing on my skull not a rock.

My father was part of the search. When the fitz reported a rail down thats important. It signifies a lot. She had a 30ft draft in 30ft swells she ran aground on caribou shoals and tore a hole in her. She took on water faster than she could pump it out.

@bimobop

10 ай бұрын

Is it hard to recover the bodies? I’m curious about that when they find bodies on shipwrecks they’re usually left there

@ktanner11

10 ай бұрын

@@bimobop they are left, the bodies in superior would be somewhat preserved i would think. They are left there for respect of a tradition, they sea has claimed them, the ship is thier grave.

Lake Superior is a Lake you would not want to swim too deep, and the thing about Superior is that it has the most shipwrecks out of any of the great lakes

@noahlucas2453

Жыл бұрын

Fact about Lake Michigan: During WW2 the Navy put a training carrier called the U.S.S Wolverine and there were a lot of accidents on the lake, mostly the planes were F4U Corsairs, F4F Wildcats, Etc. If you want to see a crashed F4U Corsair, then you can go to the Kalamazoo Air Museum, one of the only Museums that have a F-117 Blackbird in the nation

@robertyoung3992

Жыл бұрын

@@noahlucas2453 SR-71

@AyeliaGDoren

8 ай бұрын

So Lake Superior for shipwrecks and Michigan is the most deadly. I wonder about Ontario and the others.

My dad is originally from Williamston Michigan and when I was very little he would sing me that song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. I was maybe three or four and I became absolutely obsessed with the song and with shipwrecks in general. My dad always nurtured my love of history, and now I’m a Holocaust historian!

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980

4 жыл бұрын

You might enjoy a video about Princess Alice of Greece The Queens Mother In Law. Who hid a family of Jewish refugees in her home durring WWII. The video made by Reel Truth History is available on KZread & its full title is Princess Alice: The Queens Mother In Law. It's worth checking out.

@TheQueerTailor

4 жыл бұрын

Amethyst that sounds interesting! I’ve heard of her, I believe she is honored at Yad Vashem

@neuralmute

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up on the north shore of Lake Erie, born in the late 70's, and my mum was naturally a *huge* Gordon Lightfoot fan. The one song that really stuck with me was "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald", between that haunting melody and realising that it was about a *real* ship that really sank... Still living on the Lakes; now I go wreck diving at least once a summer, if I can manage it. It's an amazing way to get right up close to local history!

@hithere911

4 жыл бұрын

My mom plays that song from time to time.

@onemercilessming1342

4 жыл бұрын

Leah Sauter--Gordon Lightfoot sang it, and it was quite popular at the time. It's based on true events. The Native American tribes who lives around the 5-lake area of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior) had legends of Lake Superior, which they called Gitchee Gumee (think "the Song of Hiawatha" by Longfellow). "By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining "Big-Sea-Water"...In the Ojibwe language, the lake is called Gitchigumi, meaning "big water".

"The Lake? She was... Having a moment." Yeah, that sounds about right, pretty much on brand for Lake Superior.

@crusmonster1397

4 жыл бұрын

Your Wayward Destiny that part had me in stitches 😂😂😂😂 such a great way to put it

@ThePhantomSafetyPin

4 жыл бұрын

Lake Superior is ALWAYS having a moment. She doesn't ever NOT have moments.

@raquellofstedt9713

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePhantomSafetyPin She lives in the moment.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot. A canadian icon

Recently, when Gordon Lightfoot passed, the bell rang 30 times, once for each of the Sailors and once for him.

Me: *clicking on the video because I love her.* Her: LAKE SUPERIOR. Me: *looks out window* I live literally five minutes away.

@Shadows1lover

4 жыл бұрын

I like your profile picture and username lol. I love finding ARMY who have odd interests like myself. I love her videos so much!

@tulganandvaldyavin6930

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. The lake is boss!

@Shadows1lover

4 жыл бұрын

Gus W because they commented that they live near this location, it means they’re making an entire video about themselves? 😂?

@colleennewholy9026

4 жыл бұрын

I got to visit Lake Superior four times, and each time. I never wanted to leave... It was just so... ethereal. I felt the same way, when I got to stand in the Pacific...

Caitlin :Lake Superior never gives up her dead Also Caitlin :Let's go kayaking

@andrewworden1860

4 жыл бұрын

Fun times... great way to check out the pictured rocks.

That song by Gordon Lightfoot is an absolute MASTERPEICE! I play it over and over again throughout my life

20:50 this is my favorite spot in the entire world; We spent our honeymoon in Bayfield in 2011. My husband now has pancreatic cancer, he wants his ashes scattered off Madeline island. So special to see it on your show. Thanks Caitlyn ❤️

Lol... as someone who has lived near Lake Superior, she's always "having a moment."

@Silver_wind_1987_

3 жыл бұрын

Shes on her permanent period it would seem

@vibockhausen9839

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Like, she's a giant lake on her period that has a moment so often you can't tell where one stops and another starts. Whoo just thinking of the sheer size and depth of that lake gave me chills.

@Silver_wind_1987_

3 жыл бұрын

@@vibockhausen9839 hmmm its creepy very creepy.

@KirstenMarie_MS3

3 жыл бұрын

@@Silver_wind_1987_ The very reason I never applied to UW Superior is because I need to stay in MN for insurance reasons and there was no way I was driving over the bridge from Duluth every day. I dunno what it is, but that crossing, along with the one from MI into Canada give me the hibeejeebees.

@Silver_wind_1987_

3 жыл бұрын

@@KirstenMarie_MS3 I'm senstive to alot of spirits (don't judge ) it's probably because alot of them are near the bridge....and giving off a sad...cold energy

I was stationed at Duluth AFB when this happened . The weather was so bad that day that the base was on minimum manning with most people told to stay home. I was watching TV with some of my fellow officers in the BOQ when an emergency broadcast interrupted the show: All crew members of the Coast Guard ship Woodrush were being called to go out on a rescue mission. Here we were, forbidden to drive less than a mile to work and there they were being sent out on stormy Lake Superior to rescue people if they could. "You have to go out. You don't have to come back," is a common Coast Guard saying. I will never forget that storm or the bravery of the Coast Guardsmen stationed at Duluth on that day.

@MishraArtificer

3 жыл бұрын

Man, Coasties are a whole other breed of human. There is no other way to explain how they willingly run into some of the crazy shit they do on a daily basis.

Even the lakes Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario have are just as bad when the storms especially from November to April are particularly vicious. All the lakes have 6000 shipwrecks with 30,000 dead.

@vanguardtrainer924

10 ай бұрын

Yeah The Great Lakes are no joke, when I was 3 I was at a beach in the Hamilton/Burlington area and I was playing in a little rubber boat and got carried out my mother almost drowned trying to save me but thankfully a couple of teenagers hanging out on some of the surrounding rocks jumped in and saved us. Even on perfectly calm days all the lakes can be deadly, and people seriously need to learn to respect them.

@laurawendt8471

9 ай бұрын

Lake Michigan has the most deaths of individuals yearly, no idea about shipwreck numbers, but drownings are common unfortunately

@carlaforth7707

8 ай бұрын

​@@laurawendt8471😢

@jjmckay6man1

6 ай бұрын

there is also a lot more population surrounding Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie then there is surrounding Superior.

As someone from Michigan who spends a lot of time at superior! It’s super fascinating listening to people talk about our lake! So many people underestimate Lake superior’s power and there’s nothing like seeing Lake superior with a Northeast wind! It will send shivers thru your body!

I love how interactive and educational Caitlin’s videos are. It’s like Reading Rainbow but for death.

@Thatgirlcodes

4 жыл бұрын

Clare Flattery honestly her having a show on pbs would be awesome

@rhet420

4 жыл бұрын

Like butterflies in the sky!

@PhantasmaAdoria

4 жыл бұрын

Like corpses in the ocean ..🎼🎹

@Abcdefghijk920

4 жыл бұрын

Omgggg yesss!!! So good!!

@audoldends6799

4 жыл бұрын

The best metaphor ever. That should be the tagline of the show

We have also a quite well-preserved corpse in a cold lake in Germany: In January 1964, a man crossed the frozen Königssee in his oval-window VW Beetle to visit someone. On his return in the night he apperently did an unvoluntary donut, lost orientation (6 V headlights) and drove straight to Falkensteinwand (Falkenstein Wall) where the lake wasn't frozen. The car sank with it's driver. 30 years later the driver was discovered during an unmanned submarine dive. He was lying beside the VW Beetle in a depth of 120 m, and both were in good condition. Both driver and his faithful vehicle are still lying in place, and his relatives decided, that this should his grave.

@rafmonkey96

2 жыл бұрын

All Germans are welcome residents in Michigan. Most of our ancestors actually came from Germany up in the northern prefectures. You guys would love Frankenmuth

@naturbursche5540

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafmonkey96 Happy German American Day!

@joshinnc1520

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this story. 👍

@ritamccartt-kordon283

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafmonkey96 My Brother lives in Michigan and when I visited, he and his wife took us to Frankenmuth! The food was fantastic! The people were very friendly too! I would love to go back. Love those memories! GOD bless

@Isabel-ge1ou

2 жыл бұрын

if I drown please someone get my body. yikes.

Our time living in the Keweenaw Peninsula has been short, but being 15 minutes from Superior’s waters basically in the middle of lake…it reminds us often how much respect it demands. In the summer it’s a totally different lake, calm and welcoming with cool waters to take the summer heat off you. In the late fall, it’s different, the lake is violent, cold, terrifying, and deep, in the dead of winter it can be worse on some shores, and others it’s calm because ice has frozen over entire bays. The blizzards on the north shore of the UP are like none other, so harsh they drive people away from these towns in troves.

@jjmckay6man1

6 ай бұрын

There are also old houses up here that have exterior doors on the second story lol.

I know of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald from Gordan Lightfoot's song. I was always sad and haunted by the story it told. As far as the ship being declared a gravesite and to be protected and preserved, I totally agree. While I find seeing the ship and the artifacts there immensely fascinating, I feel that the men that died there should be left to rest undisturbed and in peace. The ship and the crew should be left alone, protected from those who would plunder the site. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald should be revered and protected as any other grave.

"It takes tough people to live on this tough lake" We manage with liquor.

@sharonmullins1957

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha!

@___LC___

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of liquor.

@Sithis211

3 жыл бұрын

This...this is true and campfire stories and other bullshit. Crack is big in my home town of Willmar.

@kiwifox90

3 жыл бұрын

Ha probably why my uncle drinks it like water and have had a few felonies because of marijuana

@alvatrous

3 жыл бұрын

Grew up in grand rapids. Can confirm yall are a different breed up there.

I was 14 and going to high school in Ironwood, MI when the Fitz went down. I remember the storm and the mixture of collective grief and a kind of lack of surprise. That's Lake Superior. She does that. She'll "reach out and grab ya" even when you aren't in the water. I have a very vivid memory of fishing from the breakwater at Black River Harbor north of Ironwood. Within a few minutes it went from a decent day to waves over the breakwater. I'd run the rocks back to shore and looked back to see water covering where I'd been fishing. Also got scolded good by my folks for collecting my gear. As a river canoe guide years later one August we camped on the shore at the end of the Bois Brule. We weren't near the water, but the spectacular storm well out on the Lake turned south suddenly, demolished our camp, and was gone. Total time? No more than fifteen minutes from calm to calm. Sorry to go on. Clearly an evocative film. Thank you for both the detail and the sensitivity of your presentation.

@xScreamingxInsanityx

4 жыл бұрын

It's truly amazing that such events could happen and do happen with the fickle gitche gumee. I grew up hearing stories and being read bedtime stories like 'the gulls of the edmund fitzgerald'. None of it sounded quite believable in lieu of sounding more like the boogieman. My parents were both michigan natives born and raised and that statement of "That's lake superior. She does that. She'll 'reach out and grab ya' " was like I was a kid listening to my parents all over again. After repeated visits I have come to understand it's not really the urban myth it sounds like with out seeing her. Lake Superior is beautiful to look at but damn if she doesn't have an attitude.

@endergamer7483

3 жыл бұрын

The waves look like those my grandparents have pictures of from Ireland, angry and dark. Like if you said or looked at them funny, they’d snap back harder.

Rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot, and all the souls on that ship too.

The Arthur M Anderson is the sister ship to the Fitzgerald. Which is still in use. The Anderson still blows the horn going through the locks on the last trip of the season once for themselves and once for the Fitzgerald

@AlanRoehrich9651

6 ай бұрын

No, the Anderson is not a sister ship to the Fitzgerald. The only sister ship to the Fitzgerald was broken up and scrapped in the early eighties.

@jasonconley771

6 ай бұрын

@@AlanRoehrich9651 I have lived in Michigan my entire life and my father was born and raised in the upper peninsula! You really should double check that. The Anderson actually is a sister ship to the Fitzgerald. The Anderson still blows her horn extra every November 10, in honor of the Fitzgerald.

I live right on Lake Superior in Minnesota. I just don't mess with it. We've got more than 10000 other lakes, no reason to play a dangerous game

@pyroshayniac1090

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, when I went by to visit. I looked out over the water and had the feeling the lake was bad luck.

@thegeneralissimo470

3 жыл бұрын

She’s a mighty beast she is

@redforman9217

3 жыл бұрын

I go for swims in some dangerous waters because when I visit in the summer I swim no matter what big waves or calm

@blackeyedchild3688

3 жыл бұрын

I live a couple hours from lake superior and the one time I swam in it I ended up get pummeled by waves not that far from shore. If I'd hit my head I easily could've drowned, wouldn't recommend going into the lake lol.

@Isaac-ob9tm

3 жыл бұрын

@@redforman9217 cool guy alert 📢

when he talked about his aunt who was probably so excited for her husband to finally retire so she could be with him more :(((

@SteamPoweredSmurfette

3 жыл бұрын

That would be his aunt excited about her father coming home as it was his great uncle who was on board. Even more sad.

For anyone wondering why the Fitz is so well known, it’s probably not just the song. It is the last freighter shipwreck to ever take place on the lakes. That alone probably draws in some great measure of allure.

My great-grandparents lived on Lake Superior and used to listen in on the ships through their radio. They heard the Edmund Fitzgerald go down on that stormy night (presumably via the chatter of the aftermath, since the ship herself never sent a distress call). Because of that, Gordon Lightfoot’s song has always held a special magic for my mom and I. Thank you for exploring this topic with such gravitas.

The phrase _"To go down with the ship"_ Means that even in the most dire of circumstances, your loyalty is unshaken. The Captain of the Fitzgerald, held his composure in the face of death, and that's absolutely remarkable. All my respect to the fallen and their families.

@pyroshayniac1090

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I couldn't imagine facing your death like that. It's incomprehensible.

@mikeborsum2953

4 жыл бұрын

Also, because if you radio for an SOS, anyone who shows up, can instantly claim salvage rights. Meaning, anything of value floating in the water, or in the ship (if they reach it) is up for grabs, if the Captain of a distressed ship leaves the boat. If the Capt goes down with it, it can't be salvaged right away. "To go down with the ship" was often encouraged by the company that owned the vessel.

@mikeborsum2953

4 жыл бұрын

@Harry Lime You should look into maritime salvage law from back in the day,.

@robertcollinsworth9113

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeborsum2953 Why don't you cite a little of it here, do it doesn't look like you're talking out your ass.

@765respect

4 жыл бұрын

Some savage comments here!

Years back in 1987 I was dating this lovely lady here in California, we had been seeing each other for about 3 1/2 months when one night that I was staying at her place she received a phone call from someone. While she was talking to this person she asked me to bring this plastic tub out of her room so she could go through papers that were in it while she talked. There were tons of photos in the plastic bin as well, and one of them was a photo of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the bottom of Lake Superior. It turned out that her older brother was one of the crew that had gone down with the ship, and the phone call was about the possibility of retreiving the bodies from the ship. All of the crew's remains were present inside the ship except for one set of remains that had wound up outside on the lake bed, (I assume that the person in question was most likely one of the bridge crew & was somehow thrown free of the ship as it struck bottom). This corpse has been mentioned elsewhere over the years so I'll make no more mention of it. She did however, show me the photos of their bodies in the condition that they were in at that point in time & it was somewhat bizarre as they looked like humanoid wax figures with clothing on. It wasn't creepy or gross in any way, they just looked odd. She knew exactly which one her brother was by the clothes he was wearing in the photos The upshot of this is that the locations of all 29 bodies in both the bow & stern sections are known & at that time it was said that the bodies had all gone through the process of Adipocerication, but if all of the families wished it they could retreive the remains, but it would be really expensive to retreive them & the families would all have to come up with something like $250,000.00. That's when they decided to leave them where they were & began the legal proceedings to prohibit any more diving expeditions to the Fitzgerald. I believe that the ruling came through for that in 1995 but I can't be sure. We only dated for about 2 more months & she moved back home to Michigan. But I truly hoped she was, and continues to be okay, because after that evening there were times that the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was all that she could talk about.

@mihorsewoman

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I hope she is ok, too!

@cadenchristiansen3553

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story

@HoneyIYKYK

3 жыл бұрын

Wow such a dope story. I got chills reading it. I want to see the pictures so bad! I was hoping the video would reveal A snap.

@KatTheScribe

3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story, thank you for sharing this.

@kristimorrison6501

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like by you lending a sympathetic ear(judging by your comment you seem to have) she was able to process those feelings and heal. Sometimes all you need is someone to listen to you get it all out.

Gorden Lightfoot, told this story best in his song !!!! This was a song I hum ,or sing years later !! 1970 's made lots of great folk songs , worth the gold in their records !!!!

Many of these fellows survived WWII, Korea, perhaps Viet Nam....others barely out of their teens. RIP ❤️

I live in Detroit, and had summer jobs at the steel mill where the Edmund Fitzgerald delivered the loads of ore. I saw the ship several times, when it came into port it was An Event. There are still churches in Detroit that do memorial services on the anniversary of the day the ship was lost, although now extended to remember all those who died in shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.

@demonorse

4 жыл бұрын

The Anderson is still in service, I've seen her several times.

@neuralmute

4 жыл бұрын

Back when I lived in the area, I used to pass the Old Mariner's Church every time I crossed the border into Detroit. I even went to a few of the remembrance services there, and stood in silence while the bell tolled 29 times. That was powerful.

@HexusoftheSheep

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember hearing stories about the Edmund Fitzgerald and hearing the sad songs sang at bars growing up in Michigan. I never got to see it, though.

@fadnama

4 жыл бұрын

I used to live in Port Huron and loved seeing the various shipwreck sites in Lake Huron along the “thumb” of Michigan.

It breaks my heart that it was John's uncle and the captain's last voyage before retirement. I can't imagine being their families and how crushing that news would be. The great lakes are absolutely no joke. I was in Cleveland for my best friend's wedding and the high winds coming off lake erie blew my car all over the road on the highway. Just being around them can be super dangerous.

@Anna-tc6rz

4 жыл бұрын

Even an hour away from the tip of Lake Michigan we're constantly feeling the effects. Lake effect snow, heavy ass rain, etc. I cant imagine what living near it is like.

@sherrythomas3028

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Lake Erie is no joke.

@neuralmute

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I remember one ice storm off Lake Ontario that knocked out half of Toronto's electricity for close to a week, over the Christmas holiday. Temperatures were around -20 C, and emergency warming shelters were set up so people wouldn't freeze to death in their own homes. I was out of town, but my BFF/roommate took in 3 of our friends who didn't have power so they would literally *not die* at their own place. Lake effect weather is nuts!

@Puddingcup110

4 жыл бұрын

I live on Lake Erie and it’s amazing and scary at the same time when a storm comes through. The waves are no joke!

@DanceswithDustBunnies

4 жыл бұрын

The great lakes are really inland seas, not to be messed with. I was living in Cleveland at the time the Fitz went down. Freaked me out for years after; this has renewed that feeling, even though I now live in the middle of Texas.

The sinking of the Fitzgerald is iconic for the Gordon Lightfoot song but (as is mentioned in the song) how quickly they sank. A ship that size should shouldn't have sank as quickly as it did.

One of my friend's uncles, Nolan Church, was one of the 29 souls that perished. May they all rest in peace, 48 years later

As the late great Stan Rogers used to sing: "Don't take the Lakes for granted. They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted."

@tangodown69

4 жыл бұрын

Hard Yacka Nipper Now you’ve got that song in my head.

@tilehelperdan

4 жыл бұрын

Stan Rogers is criminally underrated. His voice and writing are spectacular.

@jodivandyk3649

4 жыл бұрын

For those who are interested, there is a memorial to Stan Rogers at the Kelso Beach Park amphitheatre in Owen Sound, home of Summerfolk. It's a stone with his name and image that sits at the right side of the stage.

@sharkgirl5955

4 жыл бұрын

Hard Yacka Nipper 0-100 real fast lol

@LaceBlood

4 жыл бұрын

Facts. I’ve gone swimming in Lake Ontario, which is probably the calmest, and sometimes it can get scary very suddenly. And that’s near the shore

I love how you tell stories.I literally feel like a little kid listening to someone reading me a book before bed lolll

@Richsalvageconsultan

4 жыл бұрын

Chilling thought. (Was that "Victoria Hilton-Addams," daughter of Wednesday Addams?)

Thank you for such a fascinating tale!! I grew up on the coast as well, and the title of “lake” in this regard seems like a misnomer to me, too!! Some of the footage you showed of the insane waves hitting the shore are nothing short of terrifying!! You’re a fantastic storyteller, you kept my attention the entire time, and I was so disappointed that the video was in actuality already over! Thank you again!

@shirleybalinski4535

Жыл бұрын

See the spot wear the waves break over those high ,black cliffs? Well, those cliffs are 80' high. That was filmed in November of 2021, I belive, along the shore of Northern Minnesota.

@spleens4200

Жыл бұрын

I swear if it was a little bit salty, people would be all too happy to call it a sea

@nancyjanzen5676

Жыл бұрын

A couple years ago my cousin sent pictures of Superior throwing waves onto US 2.

I live in Duluth, it’s awesome there (incredibly cold). My grandpa was the captain aboard the lake freighter Herbert C. Jackson, he was sailing on the night the fitz went down. I’m only 14 right now but I plan on working on a laker. It’s something I’ve always been fascinated by the lakes and the ships that sail on them. My favorite ships are the James R. Barker and the John G. Munson. Anyway, love the video great job!

I used to be irrationally terrified of dead bodies a few years ago, so I began to research decomposition and mortuary science to educate myself on them. Through this knowledge, I’ve lost this fear and replaced it with interest! You were who I first watched and I’m so thankful for my fear (ironically) because I discovered your videos! Thanks for what you do, we love you!

@26muca07

4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how the spectrum of emotions work inside our brain and minds. Fear is at the same spectrum but at the opposite end from fascination. I was an arachnophobic and now that I've trained my mind, I find these creatures absolutely fascinating! They're more afraid of humans than we're from them, and jumping spiders are adorable pets, I have one in an enclosure I captured the other day in my garden. Her name is Petrova and she is basically a cat in a shape of a tiny spider.

@26muca07

4 жыл бұрын

@@kale2305 she deserved her name in radiology terminations because she was fearless and made history with stuff no human being could comprehend and would never want to be around for an hour, at the time. She's fascinating as well.

@brittanyolson5235

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!! Well said!!

@Puddingcup110

4 жыл бұрын

That’s how I got over my fear of death and seeing a Body. Although I’ve always been fascinated with the Science behind an Autopsy and finding out how someone passed. It was never something I wanted to put out there or dare googling cause of the fear or seeing it. Now, it’s all I read about and watch on KZread Lol I’m thankful of finding her channel ❤️🖤

@26muca07

4 жыл бұрын

@@Puddingcup110 You want to know something particular about death that comforts me? I get to work with corpses constantly as I'm a makeup artist. But I don't have any family left, and at all events I refused myself to look at my dear lost parent laid in a coffin. But I used to work very well with bodies I didn't know personally.

Death mom has blessed us again

Respecting the thoughts and feelings of sailors and their families should never come into question. It's terrible that they died the way they did. My sympathies for the loss to all family and friends of the souls that perished in Edmund Fitzgerald. Rest peacefully. 🕯🕊

RIP to Gordon Lightfoot Monday, May 1, 2023.

"Almost 50 years later..." Damn 💔, I keep thinking about the 70s as 30 years ago. RIP to those who lost their lives in the lake.

@We_Are_All_Vultures

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@kanemary56

3 жыл бұрын

Amen...

@josephpelletier9494

3 жыл бұрын

Also same. For some reason my brain just auto associates 20** as 2000

@Thomasnmi

3 жыл бұрын

The 1970's were a long time ago. :(

@stjjames

3 жыл бұрын

Dang, me too . . . It’s almost time, to be done.

Me born and raised Michigan native: *sees title* “bet it’s Lake Superior” *opens video and checks description* *is correct*

@ashied13

3 жыл бұрын

Wisconsinite here, same.

@janelljacques5677

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto! I knew it was lake superior!

@neophantomyt1435

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, Traverse City, Michigan

@spleens4200

3 жыл бұрын

The legends we’re told of these lakes are no joke

@samanthathick6724

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao i commented the same thing. All of us around here know

i had the privilege of being born on the tip of ms Gitchi Gummi (right where the Fitz left from) and she is truly an incredible force of nature. shes freezing and crystal clear, ive drank straight from her many times. shes so vast when i looked out my window i couldnt see the other side. and i miss her everyday:,) thank you for giving her the spotlight 💙🌊

I grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada on Lake Superior. My Daughter at 3 years old got out early one morning and went down to the shore and slipped on a slippery rock and fell in. She woke me up crying to tell me she had just fallen in. I marched her back down to the shore and had her apologize to the lake for the disrespect and at the same time to thank the lake for sparing her life that day.