When a cargo ship becomes a submarine

[Bort]

The Great Lakes can be extremely dangerous, shipwrecks litter the bottoms of all of the lakes, and have most often been caused by misjudging the weather, which can get very very bad as you can see from the pictures. Also, the Lakes can act in ways not normally seen in the oceans, in Lake Michigan a sort of lake tsunami called a Seiche has killed plenty of people both on the shore and on the water. Ice is also a big issue in the winter, the Canadian and US Coast Guards both maintain a big icebreaker on the lakes to facilitate shipping and the USCG also maintains a few smaller tugs and bouy tenders that can break ice as well.


Brrrr!!

[Camaero]

Damn, that is one mean lake.

[Sailor Steve]

Here are links to the Edmund Fitzgerald, which Don1reed mentioned in his first post.

The ship and her story (plus some others):
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html

The lyrics:
http://home.pacbell.net/chabpyne/lyrics.html

Listen to the song:
http://www.corfid.com/gl/wreck.htm

And a photo plus an explanation of the lyrics:
http://www.europa.com/~random7/fitz.htm

[kurtz]

IIRC (which I often don't) Convoy PQ17 had 3 'Lakers' which transferred from lake Superior and sailed for England, can't remember if they got there and can't find any of my books . (needed one for the French big gun sub on another thread)

[bandi]

[edit]... removed to meet forum standards... cheers...

[lesrae]

Not the Great Lakes (I don't think) but this made me feel queasy:

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by bandi

Some Info from the Net... Good Read...

That was all in my fourth link.

Also, it's a good idea to post a link to where you get something, so people don't think you put it together yourself.

[bandi]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That was all in my fourth link.

Also, it's a good idea to post a link to where you get something, so people don't think you put it together yourself.

Originally Posted by bandi

Info from the Net

Well, I Stated I got it from the net, and I
was going meaning to place the link, as I
was returning back to thread and editing
it to include more info, plus I was reading
that info from the site and posting it at the
same time you were... but I was also at
work at the time, and ya beat me to the
post button... sorry to step all over the
rules on forum edicate(spl)... I guess I will
assume my role as a lurker... I don't know
why people feel the need to correct others
when they simple were trying to provide
some additional info or media... lighten up...
schools been out for me for many years...

cheers mate...