The Great Lakes Shipwreck Graveyard 

Excellent production for a local television station. Much higher quality, research, and presentation than I had expected. Thank you very much for doing this.

Lost a school friend on the Fitzgerald . We still love you and will always remember you Bruce Hudson . Especially every time this sad song is played ✌️🥹🎶💕💙🌎🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

I produced a documentary for PBS of an underwater archaeology study of the Rockaway, a 100 year old wreck of a scow schooner just north of South Haven in Lake Michigan. Fascinating!! Crew rescued by rowing Coast Guard boat in two trips over a mile from harbor before it sank.

Who else is here waiting for BigOlBoats or Maritime Disasters to find this vid and go over some of the wrecks in more details? I love learning what happened so the sailors memeories live on. ❤😊

Thanks for the story

Blows my mind, people wouldn’t go to a beach to see a ship over the rona.

Very amazing stories.

Wow, they actually found the body on a wreck? That's the first time I've ever heard of that. You figured it'd be gone by now...

How does this only have 72 comments lol. This stuff is so exciting and this was really well made

Awesome honeymoon idea!

Nice video! Viewing from northern Illinois

if my information is correct, no one is allowed to dive to the Fitzgerald anymore, as the Canada deem the sight an Grave Yard for all the ones that died that night.

Sharp. Great video

Awesome Stories!!

The Water Witch may be made of wood, but the name sure sounds metal.🤘

The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot "The legend lives on, from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore, 26,000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the gales of November came early. The ship was the pride of the American side, coming back from some mill in Wisconsin. As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most, with a crew and good captain well seasoned. Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms, when they left fully loaded for Cleveland, and later that night, when the ship's bell rang, could it be the North wind they'd been feelin'? The wind in the wires made a tattle stale sound, and a wave broke over the railing. And every man knew, as the captain did too, twas the witch of November come stealin'. The dawn came late, and the breakfast had to wait when the gales of November came slashin'. When afternoon came, it was freezin' rain in the face of a hurricane west wind. When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin', 'Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya!' At 7 PM, a main hatch way caved in, he said, 'Fellas, it's been good to know ya.' The captain wired in he had water comin' in, and the good ship and crew was in peril. And later that night, when his lights went outta sight, came wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay, if they'd put 15 more miles behind her. They might've split up, or they might've capsized. They may have broke deep and took water, and all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives, and the sons, and the daughters. Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings in the rooms of her ice-water mansion, old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams. The islands and bays are for sportsmen, and farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake Erie can send her, and the iron boats go, as the mariners all know, with the gales of November remembered. In a musty old hall in Detroit, they prayed in the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral. The church bell chimed till it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. The legend lives on, from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.🎼🎵🎶" Let's not forget this!

You guys should come down to Cuba Lake near Ithaca new York. And in trouble that there's a lot of shipwrecks there too and you might find other things that might be very interesting.

How cool would be to look for treasures like old ships? How satifying to get paid to investigate and hunt these hidden treasured every day. Alot of work with very small windows for celebration. But how amazing those small windows would be? Just the History alone?

Jeez, did the guy hosting this get dressed in the dark. LOL

hell yea !!

half mountain: a hillock. creepy, finding cadavers at the bottom.

Have sunk…

How many Holy Grails are there? 😂

Great lakes first off shore oil rig was built..? Surprised never mentioned...?

It's too bad that 2 of the 9 were originally incorrectly identified (It happens) and are no longer believed to be the ships named in this documentary.

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Welcome to pur gteat lakes. This is great history. That lake it rough at times

Lived on the shores of Superior for years, everyone knows you don't take chances on the lake.

Are we ever going to be able to get rid of all the zebra muscles?

I believe that the sentence should read "An estimated 6,000 ships HAVE SUNK in the [Great] Lakes" If using SANK it should read "The ships SANK in the Great Lakes." Whoever wrote the titles has included many other grammatical errors besides the aforementioned one.

Any whereabouts information on Paule of London and Patience?

0:18 Hold on- this is produced by an official ABC broadcast station and their intro says "An estimated 6,000 ships have SANK in the lakes?!?!?!" SERIOUSLY?!?!?! SANK? The proper word here is "SUNK."

Hope the guy who investigated the Fitz had permission to do so.

Very interesting! 🤙💦

God do I hate zebra mussels.....

I don't know about having a ship called the Water Witch it just sounds like bad luck with a name like that anyway I live on he north shore of Lake Erie and have been interested in great lake wrecks since I was a kid and heard the classic Gordon Lightfoot song and since then have bought books on lake Erie wrecks and on great lake wrecks. I have never dived on a wreck because I started having panic attacks and don't want to risk being 30 feet or more and have an attack so I love watching video's of people diving the wrecks.

Was the Pestigo named after Pestigo, wis? That was the town burned out during a massive forest fire many years before.

“13” must signify the age of the editor. Could you put any more narrator cuts in? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

hey Rick..... I heard Your theory for why the big Fitz sank on a different RU-vid video that you were in. You said that the water that weighed her down most likely came from topside and that you don't think they scraped bottom. This was backed up by the fact that experts said if she Did ground out, she could not have continued on as long as she did meaning she would have sunk much more quickly. My question is, if that was the case? how and why did the fence rail go down and what created the list and lost the vents covers. To me, it makes perfect sense that they just nicked the bottom on the starboard side only rupturing a tank or two while going over six fathom shoal. Just as Cptn. Cooper said in his interview, they were closer than he would like to be and that just rubbing the shoal would have been sufficient force to hog the ship enough to snap the fence rail as well as create the list and blast two vent covers off due to the instant and immense change in pressure from the sudden but silent impact. This also makes sense because it was directly after passing over six fathom shoal that Cptn McSorley radioed the damage to the crew of the Anderson.

Tackenote= iron ore mixed w corn starch...

Social distance yourself when you're in the water boys 7:10 Don't want to give kova to the fishes

29:04 Desecration (i guess) will not be tolerated. Bringing liquor aboard is strictly forbidden. That's not a sailor's life.😆

Be better without the constant reminders of covid

Trainers with a blazer and tie????..? Lord, lord!

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Oh my this is really creepy to me! I was married to a sailor and when i would go to take a trip every year onboard ,all that would have to happen to kill me was to push me into that water between the dock and the ship…..id die of fear! Knowing that huge hulking boat was many feet below the surface in that dark creepy water😳😰😱😨…..whew…! Anyway, I was a passenger a few times on the ss armco, ss reserve, ss buckeye and ss Middletown. Anyway, I think it would be just awesome to spend my honeymoon searching for a shipwreck…hell yes….and i really enjoyed the many days id spend on these ships …it was an awesome experience.

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Wheres all the fish? The great lakes looks fishless?!

Why is the host wearing that ?????????????? 😂😂😂

I don't care for some of the interrupting narration. Otherwise 😊pretty good.

Get It done huh. Looks like Donald was taking out to me

It broke in half.

A shipwreck is found in last place you look for it.

Kind of obnoxiously edited guys lol The newscaster audio parts that is. Cool video none the less

Haven’t seen a single fish that scares me no vegetation lots of muscles no fish hmm?

you couldnt have paid me enough to work on a whale back.

it’s so annoying how they keep narrating with 2-6 words like just let the people you’re interviewing speak

In 1915, almost 850 people died, more than in the Titanic, when the Eastland capsized in Chicago.

Man it drove me crazy where I almost just couldn't watch this because the reporter breaks in talking when the other people are talking he just keeps doing it over and over and over and over and over and it's annoying AF!!!

Not Great Lakes ship wrecks..it’s Michigan ship wrecks

The back and forth interrupting sentences is so annoying. Who thought that was a good idea??

coof is fiction

People should realize their meant to live on land. If there's something across the water you want, want something else. Ships are stupid. Learn to live off your own land.

Over here by lake Eire here we call those big ones keepers. But you don't got to marry them😊

You earned a big fat thumbs down for repeatedly squawking about covid, as if it were realm

These talking heads sound entirely too happy to be talking about these poor dead men... Inappropriate and disrespectful. Thumbs definitely down.

Your editing style is atrocious. Good informative video though

"Have sunk", not "have sank". Get hooked on phonics before you start writing your narrative. And while you're at it, get hooked on Garanimals as well.