Didn’t have a hydrostatic epirb and shit hit the fan too quick
>>2012054Power was generated in the engine room at the stern. When the fatal wave overtook the ship from the stern and broke the ships back, those power cables were severed. Everything at the front went dead except maybe for some emergency lighting. Several catastrophic things were happening in quick succession and the crew had no time.
>>2012054>>2013535indeed, just look at that thing of course it was going to break in half
>>2012054Wasn't this ship basically in trouble already and its shields were failing. I mean yes there was no mayday, but it was constantly reporting they were in some dire straits.
>>2012054>>2015932Of all maritime disasters, Great Lake freighter losses are the most foreseeable. It's almost comical how people are surprised when these noodles snap.They're unseaworthy pieces of shit.
It went into a wave and never came out.
>>2012071That isn’t true the cook told them it was to rough to feed them hours before it sank.
>>2016686hope they took that time out of his wages thenWhat cook can’t make sandwiches for the boys what was he even doing during that time
I do know the lighthouse lost power that night at Whitefish point
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
