Posted by tricia minor on November 28, 19100 at 04:58:36:
In Reply to: Re: Sunken Lake Superior Yacht posted by Tim on August 31, 19100 at 11:34:19:
EDMUND FITZGERALD. to whom it may concern, i think you could be incorrect about one of the bodies being found or washed ahsore. i heard that a expedition was down near the fitzgerald. they taped it. a body was caught on camera near the wreck but no positive identification was given. down here in florida, we have divers that drown in underwater caves. please leave the ships as a grave. give peace to the families. i think tributes are in place. not trivalations.
: : I read in one of Dwight Boyer's books of a wealthy Cleveland family yacht which sank in the early 1900s in Lake Superior. Efforts, initially, to salvage her failed. Some years later, she was located by a diver in very deep water - - the diver apparently became entangled in the wreck and lost his life while diving on her. The last I heard, which was many years ago, efforts were being made to salvage the yacht, and that the diver's was still down there. Does anyone know about this yacht, and what has happened to it?
: : Incidentally, I've heard that in the cold depths of the Great Lakes, shipwreck victims' bodies are preserved, and that occasionally such bodies are washed ashore. Recently, one of the Edmund Fitzgerald's crewman's body was recovered. Is this true? Thanks.
: The yacht you refer to is the Gunilda it is still sunk and the body was recovered many years ago.she struck McGarvey shoal in Nipigon bay lake Superior 1911 and sunk in 300ft of water the name of the diver was Charles Hague hoipe this helps Tim