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Stranger · 06-14-2008, 09:03 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145600/?GT1=43001

Its amazing how good of shape its in. Its considered the Holy Gail of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

doozwimp · 06-14-2008, 11:52 AM

Neat stuff. I've always been interested in this period and in particular seafaring thanks to Patrick O'Brian.

HOZ · 06-14-2008, 04:53 PM

4700 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Wow! If you start at 1780 that is 20 a year.

It doesn't say why the warchip went down...too bad.

jofillips · 06-14-2008, 07:21 PM

good article
it mentions that it went down in a gale.

Displaced Flames fan · 06-14-2008, 08:03 PM

Shipwrecks have always fascinated me. Great stuff.

Stranger · 06-14-2008, 09:38 PM

I was reading up on Great Lake shipwrecks today, and I never knew that they found the Edmund Fitzgearld till now. There is also a Great Lake shipwreck museum in Michigan that would to cool to see.

Displaced Flames fan · 06-15-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Stranger

I was reading up on Great Lake shipwrecks today, and I never knew that they found the Edmund Fitzgearld till now. There is also a Great Lake shipwreck museum in Michigan that would to cool to see.

Yeah, I love that they raised the bell. Haunting stuff really, the whole shipwreck thing.