Even though the Bradley wasn’t the largest freighter to sink on the lakes it’s still crazy to think about how these massive ships can sink on the Great Lakes
Well, she was the second-largest freighter to sink on the lakes (behind only the Edmund Fitzgerald of course), and the largest to sink on Lake Michigan.
In ‘97, video evidence proved that the ship actually broke in two as reported by the only two survivors. The company had maintained that it was the captains fault for going into the storm and the ship was intact. The company agreed to pay only 1.3million for the 33 missing crewmen total. The ship was going to the shipyard that offseason to replace the hundreds of missing rivets that were repaired with carriage bolts installed at the company’s discretion. This was the last trip before the shipyard.
@@jr28778 not all that much has really changed. It's called capitalism. Greed drives the system. They never did care about the little people that work.
what's so sad about this is the zebra muscles that have clinged on to every surface of the wreck, it comes to show you just how much it has taken over our lakes.
That was very good. Thanks for sharing your work. For years the Bradley was kind of a mystery as to what the wreck looked like so it's great to finally get an awesome insight into it!
Great job guys, thanks! I like the way that you stayed on the objects for a long time, then got it from a different angle, lots of light, gave us time "to be there" ! Very professional, thanks again!👍
SS Carl D. Bradley was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking.
My dad was on the Bradley when it went down. Gary Norman Price is fascinating to look at this and think that this was where he spent his last living moments.
They are quagga mussels, big brother to the zebra. Zebra's and quagga'a are all over lake Michigan, torching the Bradley or any other wrk would have no impact whatsoever
Aric Stephen I don’t believe they do unlike the saltwater wrecks. There’s wrecks in the Great Lakes made from wood covered with muscles that are hundreds of years old.
The mussels don’t break down the ship structure. They simply stick themselves onto a surface then filter feed microorganisms in the water. Any concern to the wreck itself would be the added weight, but the wrecks in the lakes are so well preserved they are often structurally sound with old wooden ship wrecks being intact to the point of looking like a sunken pirate ship from a fantasy Hollywood movie. I wouldn’t worry about the wrecks when it comes to the mussels, they’ll be fine, the real worry is the damage the mussels are causing the lake ecosystem. The good news is that it’s thought the mussels will eventually starve themselves out of the system, but the bad news is they will likely take down more than a few lake native species with them. Also torching the wreck site or another mussel site would do nothing as they will all be back in under a year, might as well not waste the money. They are trying to find ways to exterminate the mussels but the issue remains finding a way to reduce collateral damage to the ecosystem while doing so and doing it cost-effectively.
Is that the starboard life davit that’s shown? If it is, a couple of the crew struggled with that lifeboat. Elmer Fleming remembered watching Paul Horn, Erhardt Felax, and Al Boehmer try to disengage the starboard lifeboat with a fire axe, because the davit cable got tangled. He was on the pilot house as this was happening, and it rolled just after this occurrence.
Why dose this shipwreck not get all the attention and remembrance as the Edmund Fitzgerald does? It sank in similar circumstances. It broke apart like the Fitz did and it cost more lives?
The Fitz is considered a bit of a mystery since the ship basically disappeared in an instant. No distress calls, just silence. The Bradley sank slower and there were survivors.
It seems like this class of lake freighters don't handle the storms of the great lakes very well. Which gives support to the claim that the great lakes are ONE of the most dangerous bodies of water a ship can sail on.
The Bradley was build in 1927, and was one of the busiest freighters on the Great Lakes and enjoyed a long and productive life. She was getting old and in need of repair, missing many rivets and had rusting cargo holds. Her sinking really had nothing to do with metallurgy and everything to do with age and condition.
As one of the comments say she was old and in need of repair unfortunately she never got the repair and we'll now she's sits at the buttom of the great Lakes
The biggest difference is the Edmund Fitzgeralds crew are still probably in the ship and as such it’s like a graveyard and they Bradley crew died mostly in the water and are not in the hull. Personally I’d like to see one last dive on the fitz to recover the log books but I can see the families reasons why they don’t want it
@@TheRealDill93 the fuck do you want, bud? i'm just saying i don't care about whatever this is about anymore. the damn comment is from nearly a year ago
@@MrGator-er1li I was just curious if you were talking about a loss of interest of shipwrecks. I was wondering what caused that. Didn’t mean anything by it.
