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re: 46 years ago today the gales of November came early...
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:19 pm to Snoop Dawg
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:19 pm to Snoop Dawg
quote:So what should the captain do? Hard to port or starboard and risk flipping over with such a load. Crazy scenario caught them off guard. Were weather stations forecast behind time in the late 70's?
heavy boat riding high waves.
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Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:28 pm to East Coast Band
That’s wild that a ship sank in a lake due to a storm.
Especially a large ship.
It doesn’t make sense
Especially a large ship.
It doesn’t make sense
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:33 pm to Fat and Happy
quote:
That’s wild that a ship sank in a lake due to a storm. Especially a large ship. It doesn’t make sense
Imagine a heavy, long boat riding one wave by the bow, the other by the stern, and the heavy middle suspended in air in between...
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:39 pm to Fat and Happy
quote:
That’s wild that a ship sank in a lake due to a storm.
Especially a large ship.
It doesn’t make sense
Do some reading on Lake Superior storms.
There are around 240 shipwrecks around Whitefish Point alone.
Lake Superior is a BIG lake.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:42 pm to FightinTigersDammit
[quote]Didn't someone write a Hillary Clinton parody as well?[/quote
Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a very parody rich tune.
Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a very parody rich tune.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:43 pm to Fat and Happy
It's a really, really big lake. You'd be better to think of it like the ocean
Posted on 11/10/21 at 8:45 pm to Snoop Dawg
quote:
the heavy middle suspended in air in between...
Fun fact, this is how modern torpedos work
“First, the torpedo detonates under the target’s hull. The pressure of the detonation creates a giant bubble under the ship. As this bubble rises, it lifts the ship out of water placing huge stress on the hull.
Secondly, once the bubble finally dissipates, the ship then begins to settle back into the void left behind by the bubble. Still supported by the bow and the stern that remain outside the void, the center of the hull sags into the void. This causes the hull to experience intense pressure from gravity.
Lastly, water rushes in to fill the void. This surge of water flows into the void then upwards, creating an intense geyser. The ship, already experiencing sagging effect, is then lifted up for a second time.
Damaged by an upward explosion and then further damaged by a sagging effect, the hull is then finished off by a massive surge of water pushing up into the underside of the ship. This method of damaging a ship is severe enough to break the back or keel of a ship.”
Posted on 11/10/21 at 9:22 pm to skidry
Not to hijack the thread, but catching smelt is one of the funnest things to do on Gitche Gumie. 
Posted on 11/10/21 at 9:24 pm to Snoop Dawg
quote:
Then why did it break in half? I think the theory computer models have shown is more likely. It was a long, heavy boat riding high waves.
Largest freighter on the lakes at the time. Water pouring in through defective hatch covers added extreme weight to the taconite they were carrying just destroyed the structural integrity plus getting pounded by huge waves was just more than she could bear.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:17 pm to fr33manator
quote:Like 'The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald'.
Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a very parody rich tune.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:22 pm to East Coast Band
Pretty good shooting guard for Ole Miss in the early nineties.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:24 pm to JodyPlauche
quote:
Bump...for tomorrow
Was so fricking confused because I didn't look at the year at first. I was 100% certain today was not the 10th.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:24 pm to Kcrad
Was going down a street in Detroit last summer and realized I was in front the Church mentioned in the song. It has a statue of George Washing dressed as Freemason outside.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:25 pm to East Coast Band
47 bro
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:26 pm to East Coast Band
If you’ve ever been a professional mariner and experienced weather that your vessel was not designed to be out in, you get the motivation of the guys who wrote the old Protestant hymns “Jesus Savior, Pilot Me”, “Eternal Father, Strong to Save”, “Master, the Tempest Is Raging”, and the like.
There are no atheists in foxholes or on a challenged vessel.
There are no atheists in foxholes or on a challenged vessel.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:45 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:
eerie !
No, Superior.
quote:
Kjnstkmn
Dammit.
This post was edited on 11/9/22 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:47 pm to East Coast Band
Remember listening to this on AM radio on the way to elementary school as a kid...
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:47 pm to VernonPLSUfan
I should post my cover of that song.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 5:48 pm to fr33manator
quote:
it's basically a poem
Aren’t all songs? If you take away the musical accompaniment, it’s all poetry.
I’m hot blooded
Catch it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
I’m hot blooded hot blooded
That’s poetry there. , buddy
This post was edited on 11/9/22 at 5:49 pm
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