Hey Corey I saw your video and your last name, I share both. Do you live on Michigan? I've only met 1 other Adkins in Michigan, their all in west Virginia lol!
My moms Family are all buried up there . Gibsons. Her name was Hoag(married name). My Grampa was one of those railroad workers named Lyle Gibson I never saw a photo of him. I wonder if hes in those photos? I wish I knew what he looked like. No car or I would go up there. I havent been up there since my mom died, but i heard about the lantern stories.
I want to be a Ghost Hunter when I get some of the tools that I want send me over there give me a tour around the place and I'll see if I can catch anything
If I remember correctly? Was there a boat in the 50s that traveled from the foot of Woodward in Detroit to an island in Canada called Boblo? Would where that came from?🤔
Yes, there were two cruise boats that sailed the Detroit River to a Boblo Island in Canada where there was an amusement park. But that was a different island, both named Bois Blanc (white wood in French) and both informally known as Bob Lo. One of the boats burned to the waterline, and the other was moved to New York where it's being restored for trips up the Hudson river.
Thank you for filming this trip 🤙🏼I’ve watched this multiple times and It’s the reason my husband and I are coming back up for the third time this year. I can’t stop thinking about this water trail. I hope run into you guys on the water some day!
Why this event doesn't get mentioned more is beyond me. I understand the Edmund Fitzgerald storm was significant and tragic, but this, this was something else entirely
I wonder how much the Fitz was insured for? Can't ever trust insurance companies they only see one thing, profit I have read the ship had something like 82 safety infractions
Not a single Comment?! Thanks so much for this very moving story. Music bridging generations and bringing people together instead of just pomp and ego.
i remember i seen this charger parked out front of the station in the town i used to live in i love the black and gold but still hate the ugly stupid light on the roof
A nosedive by the bow sounds like the only way this could have happened. Another documentary I watched spoke about how taconite ore is dangerously absorbent to water, absorbing 8 to 9 times its weight in water volume. It makes no sense that any Great Lakes mariners or captain that routinely transported taconite ore during that time of year, which was notorious for ship-sinking storms, would risk leaving hatches open upon departure- especially because Capts. McSorley and Cooper already knew they were headed into heavy storms at the time they left. There's a reason "batten down the hatches" is an expression. I don't discount the 'running aground' theory entirely, but I'm skeptical, especially since in Cooper's sworn testimony he said that the Fitz had cleared the shoals. Unless the ship's hull was in really bad condition and there was water leakage more rapid than what was initially described, I don't see how that could have been the only cause. I don't know how the Three Sisters ended up being discounted so quickly in some theories. It wouldn't take flooding the hatches for a rogue wave, especially a series of them, to sink a ship. It's also the only thing that explains why all 29 sailors were trapped on the ship and they never issued a distress call. Nothing else can take a ship down that quickly. The only alternative is that water got into the cargo hold another way, the taconite increased in volume rapidly as it all shifted forward or to one side, and the Fitz didn't stand a chance. If she caught one or more rogue waves from the front, that would have been enough to shift all the iron to the bow by itself. It's notable, however, that divers to the wreck report that two of the hatches were buckled inward, implying a huge downward force onto them at some point, and resultant leakage. Mike TenEyk said in an interview that it wouldn't take rogue-sized waves to cause that buckling or leakage, just the 30-ft waves constantly battering the ship may have been enough. It may be my cynicism about corporate oligarchy and the lengths they will go to for profit, but I've privately wondered if the Fitz wasn't deployed in rough conditions, with dangerous cargo, after years of possibly poor maintenance (according to some accounts), with the hope for a big insurance payout on a ship whose bankers and corporate backers knew was likely to sink. It wouldn't be the first time something like this was done. If the ship was indeed getting older and in need of more moneyed repairs, I think it's highly plausible. Sadly, I also think it's plausible that McSorley's "We're holding our own" might have been due to knowing they were utterly screwed and didn't want Cooper to take the risk of the Anderson and its crew coming back for them when he knew there was nothing anyone could do to save the Fitz. As an aside, it drives me crazy that everyone in that region insists on pronouncing Sault Sainte Marie wrong. It's not hard to say "Saul," and it is a French name, after all.
