NOAA Reexamines Weather Conditions

[Michael H. Standart]

From the NOAA News Website:

quote:

May 18, 2006 – A re-analysis of the weather conditions on Lake Superior during the November 1975 gale when the lake freighter Edmund Fitzgerald went down, killing all 29 aboard, shows a period when the winds and waves were the most extreme, say the NOAA scientists who conducted the review.

For the rest of the story, go to http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2633.htm​

 

[Don Tweed]

Thank you Michael. The big Fitz has always interested me.
There was a Discovery channel show on rogue waves and they mentioned the Fitz and the gales on Lake Superior. Introducing another theory into the mystery.
Best Regards, Don

 

[Wayne Keen]

Thanks for the link. It is interesting from a Fitz standpoint, and a wave modeling standpoint.

Wayne

 

[Timothy Trower]

Thanks for this link. The Fitz was my first marine interest ...; our family saw the Fitzgerald lock through in the summer of '75, and the evening of November 10 I remember watching the news and hearing a report of her loss.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Your welcome guys. I only hope that David Brown and Erik Wood have a chance to see this.

 

[Jason D. Tiller]

Thanks for the link, Mike. A very interesting article indeed.

 

[Chris Mazzella]

Yes thanks you very much for posting Michael. I've always had an interest in her. I also go to see her lifeboats last august in Sault Sainte Marie Mich. last yr. and I hope to see them again at the end of the month when i head back there for Engineer's Day at the locks. You can view photos here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/426663153/1426714573055389201AVhxYS There's about 8 more photos after that.

 

[Chris Mazzella]

I also got to work on the Arthur M. Anderson (the ship that fallowed here the night she went down) for a week towards the end of January. You can view photos here:http://community.webshots.com/user/eddie7192005-date It's the 1st album in the 3rd row.

 

[Erik Wood]

I actually posted something about this article a month ago. I put it in a different thread. I actually saw the article a month prior to it's publication. There will also be a article in the next year or so concerning the wreck and some additional information gained from the bell raising trip.

You will all be enlightened when it's published

 

[Wayne Keen]

"You will all be enlightened when it's published"

Always appreciated by a dim bulb like me!



Wayne

p.s. I have recently become involved in a program at work, that, among other things, involves modeling waves

 

[Timothy Trower]

Yeah, great, tease us then watch us all wait for a year ...