The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...

that delivery of "Does any one know where the love of God goes/When the waves turn the minutes to hours?" gets me everytime.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial event will be offered as a livestream ceremony this year. The event, scheduled for Friday, November 10, 2023 (7pm), is closed to the public, but will be available on this livestream link that you can watch from your device of choice. The buildings of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, are not open to the public on November 10, 2023.

In addition, the Michigan Maritime Museum (www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org) of South Haven, MI, will host a viewing of the Shipwreck Museum’s Edmund Fitzgerald livestreamed memorial service at their facility.

https://shipwreckmuseum.com/shipwreck-museums-48th-anniversary-edmund-fitzgerald-memorial-event-will-be-a-closed-event-livestreamed-in-2023/

Can't recall if I have posted it here or not but the Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point can be a spoooky, ominous place. Also really cool and informative.

it's interesting that there are so many shipwreck museums around the globe. Other than scattered memorials I can't think of any plane crash museums though. I guess plane crashes are mostly blamed on mechanical/human error, rather than acts of God, and so are seen differently?

Co-worker of mine in her 60s telling me how they'd have this activity at the skating rink in the late 70s where row of boys would face a row of girls.

One would skate from one side to the other, make their pick and then skate down the line between the two rows. Sometimes, the pair would go off together, but more often than not, the person picked would come back to make a selection from the other side of their own.

The most cringe and anxiety producing skating game I had heard in awhile with the cherry on top being — "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" would be the song that would play throughout all of this because it was six and a half minutes long.

There are grandmothers in suburban St. Louis today who likely flinch when those intro chords strike over the Smooth AM Hits XM channel.

I like the idea of a plane crash museum. I've personally lost several friends & acquaintances to plane crashes and only one to a shipwreck (or technically, lost at sea). I guess wind shear used to be an act of god that crashed planes but now there's technology to prevent that.

at the risk of being incredibly rude

I've personally lost several friends & acquaintances to plane crashes

do you live in alaska or are you related to paul wellstone?

No, just weird bad luck I guess. Especially for those people who are gone now.

xp can you elaborate on alaska = more plane crash prone?

not sure that it's more plane-crash prone, exactly, but most of it can only be reached by plane. an alaskan politician needs to fly a lot more than an east coast politician. and that's how ted stevens finally died.

also flying into juneau is apparently so harrowing (like, you'd better be lined up perfectly or you won't be able to clear the mountains on an aborted landing) that they've spent 70 years talking about moving the capital

bruh

i am innocent (of whatever you are suggesting)

A little technical, but this is a good analysis of the weather situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1FE69h-mdk