Posted by Rickie Moneyhun on July 11, 19102 at 16:09:33:
Well it's that time again. The time when you get out on your boat and go to your nearest Great Lake and just drop anchor right in the middle of one of the terrific Great Lakes just to look out at it and to see nothing but beutiful clear blue water as far as the eye can see, its that time when sailors pack a bag and kiss their wives and familes goodbye for a few weeks or a few months to go work and sail on a Great Lakes Frieghter. It's a time when I as a shipwreck fan gets geared up to start exploring shipwrecks again. But what is it that gets us intersted in Great Lakes Shipwrecks? Is it thinking about that gloomy night when the waves are high and thunder is rolling and lightning is flashing in the sky, when the ship starts bobbing up and down with the waves and all a sailor can think about is getting out of this storm before the storm takes the ship? Or is it after the Wreck has happened? When the next morning comes with bright sunshine that just glittlers on the lakes but to the ship that sank the night before it is nothing but pitch dark, do you think about how cold it is in that water that that vessel just sank in? Do you think of the depth of the water that the vessel just sank in like the Carl D. Bradley in 1958 in Lake Michigan in 365 feet of water or like the famous Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 in Lake Superior in 500 feet or water. is it knowing that a new shipwreck has happened and you start thinking about the families of the saliors that were lost on that ship? Or finally is it year later when you yourself get to go down and visit your favorite Great Lakes Shipwreck, and get to see the site yourself and be able to touch the wreck and explore it down that that deep cold water? For me it's all of the above. But I want to hear from you what is it to you that get's you sparked about Great Lakes Shipwrecks. Everyone who reads passage please reply to it. I want to hear from you. Oh hear us when we cry to the for those in peril on the sea.