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  • Great video but where's the sound?!!!

  • Excellent song. I've loved this one since it came out.

    I cover this song on my channel and posted a video response.

    I hope I did it justice.

  • WMG = the ultimate scumbags

  • Thanks I just got back from WI where I scattered some of my husbands ashes,I miss him so much,53 was way to young to die,I think of our cruises together and I cry a lot,this man was the love of my life and he did so much for others and man he loved his ships,it appalls me they took the original song out due to copyright infrigements as the words followed the pictures in the videos,I hope in the hereafter he is sailing on some ship.

  • WMG, Their tenticles have no bounds (and no heart)

  • WTF! No sound! Could you have yodeled or something?

  • Thanks Korina He did a great thing putting this together That shows the kind of man he was. So sorry for your lose

  • husband349....RIP  and may god bless you korina

  • Sadly my husband John who made this video of the Edmund Fitzgerald and others passed away from this Earth January 21st of aortic dissection,what John Ritter died of,I miss him so much,please keep his videos alive,thanks,Korina

  • @husband349 Re Johns "This ship is near and dear to me because me and my Grandfather would go and watch this ship leave port every chance we could. She would blow her horn, 3 short and one long blast" After reading the full comment then reading yours later it practically brought tears to my eyes. I do not want to compound your sorrow but what a really nice guy you shared with and I'm sure you're the same. Anyway will sub and remember John. All the best regards from Australia..S...

  • what a beautiful vessel shame she sunk

  • A friend of mine was a helmsman on a ship berthed nearby when she went out , they couldent believe she went, they stayed put....

  • Sorry your song got taken down when all you were trying to do was make a tribute video. The slideshow is good though!

  • thanks for sharing pearllake

  • WMG are such assholes for removing the song, this video was made as a TRIBUTE to the lost souls of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Sick Bastards....

  • Awesome video and I don't know how or where you got some of these photos. I thought i had seen them all. Plus your photos are so clean. Luv the one of the smiling cook on deck. I have been to the 25th anniv and the 33rd up at Whitefish.

  • i enjoyed watching this video. thks for uploading it.

  • hey did this ship have any boilers or anything that can explode ?

  • No audio? thats OK WMG I just play the song from another YouTube video at the same time I watch this video and that works just find. : )

  • What a gorgeous ship! Wish I was around back then to see her!

  • What a wonderful ship!! Wish I was around to see it!

  • WMG are cunts

  • Warner Music Group should be boycotted. They are nothing but greedy, selfish, self-serving bastards!

  • Dont you just love these retards ? WMG annoy me greatly.To hell with them.

  • Would be nice to be able to hear the audio

  • I heard about the Edmund Fitzgerald wreckage, but never believed it. But, now I do believe it, RIP for those men that died

  • Mc Sorley was one hell of a captain.......Not

  • Would like to see you captain a container ship!!

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  • AWESOME memorial to the lives lost and affected by this tragic accident... thank you for the time you spent putting it together, and thank you for posting it for the world to see.

  • Thank You for the comment. This ship is near and dear to me because me and my Grandfather would go and watch this ship leave port every chance we could. She would blow her horn, 3 short and one long blast. I can still hear her voice today. It was a great time and I really got to know my grandfather, Then one day the ship was gone. It was then I really started to find out more about her and her crew. There is a push to make a movie about the disaster. I hope that it gets made.

  • @Pearllake yea a movie huh..well i can tell ya we have contributed to the history channel to clear alot up on speculators..if they do make a movie they would have to come through us,i can tell ya that,i can also tell you everything that went down,from the dive with national geographic to the bell recovery to our findings..and gordon lightfoot changed his lyrics live now due to our findings..just mail me ill give ya all ya wanna know,i have radio transmissions,capt. logs,you name it i got it..

  • quit bitching about the music on hear... READ... THEN OPEN MOUTH... if its that bad, que this one up (click the vid, when it starts to play pause it) mute the volume on the video itself, not your computer, then g pick another video that still has the song, RIGHT CLICK IT, open it in new window or new tab, once it start playing, come back to this and press play... its definitely worth the 30 seconds it takes....

  • I do have it posted on yahoo video look for The Wreck Of The Big Fitz.

  • @AMCtilldeath...funny stuff. Nonsensical, but funny.

  • @slpsms how is this funny?

  • LOL how on earth does this soundtrack go with this slide show???

  • Try reading earlier posts. WMG removed the original music.

  • Music is horrible.

  • 1:36 to 1:41. Behind the Fitz on the far left, Is that the Edward L. Ryerson?

  • *Right*

  • Could Be if she traveled on the St Mary's river.

    Photograph of the Edmund Fitzgerald taken in May 1975, St. Mary's River

    (Image courtesy of Bob Campbell, Grand Ledge, MI)

  • @DevynYoshi

    Update the Ryerson has been in repair dock since 09-2009 and still sits there today in Superior WI. Just drove past it

  • This music sounds a bit like Wire.....

  • great hommage !

  • Thank You Sorry on the song, WMG is at fault. I do have it posted on another web site with the correct song. Try yahoo video.

  • i hate when ships sink

  • and such a strange wreck this one was, no ones quite sure how it sank

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  • I live about 75 miles from Whitefish Point and I've spent alot of time thru the years in the Paradise and Whitefish Point area. That song still gives me a chill. Too bad they won't let you use it.

  • Yeah, WMG lick poop

  • FUCK WMG!

    Pirate all their stuff you can!

  • OMG I LOVE THE SONG.....not sure what the video was about, but nice!

  • I thank you for your excellent photos, but your choice of music could not have been much worse. You must be a very conflicted person, an interesting boat nerd who is somehow fascinated by substandard music.

  • Again read above the original song by Gordon Lightfoot was removed by WMG.

  • ok.. lame song Here's the Correct 1.. A True Tribute & it sank in Lake Superior

  • You should read. WMG is the reason for the lame song. It started out with the right one.

  • the song named after it right.....the good one

  • This ship set sail on a calm day and went down in the middle of, I think, Lake Michigan. All hands died. Most of the men on that ship were between 18 and 25 years old. It's history. And this song is NOT what I thought it was. Why would anyone ruin a song by turning it techno ( am guessing the genre here). The tragedy is this song.

  • Close! The ship went down 17 miles from Whitefish bay in Lake Superior.

    The men ranged from there late 20's 40's and 60's

  • why has there not been a movie made about this terrible and true talethat happen in Nov of 1975?

  • Why must some people ridicule this? Its a peice of Folklore and its dedicated to the crew and the ship who lost their lives. The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald will always be remembered in Wi History

  • I know, Im from Wisconsin. And THe Fitz was from Milwaukee

  • why didnt you just you gordon lightfoot for because that song truly fits the ship because of the name of her i wasnt born when she sank but i have heard gordon lightfoots wreck of the edmund fitzgerald song its very emotional

  • Screw WMG there greedy bastards maybe we cant afford to buy every album from every artist they have signed. fucking multi-billion dollar industry wants it all, I will never buty another CD from their label and i encourage every1 else to do the same. let em see what its like to be poor and how some of us appreciate music, even though we may not be able to buy every fucking song they own.Fuck Corporate America listen to Bostons Corporate America lyrics for free. Nice video great job

  • god forbid anyone let you pay homage to the ship, her crew, or even lightfoot. I understand copyright laws, but, I'm sure that you respectfully posted, sorry.

  • WEll done. Tears well up for these fellows.

    Imagine the loss of men and women worldwide since seafaring began?

    Tom in Utica

  • Me neither

  • Nice song, but I do not see the connection

  • This is not the song I put with this. The WMG (Werner Music Group) Didn't like that I used Gordon lightfoots Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

  • What is a Sinclair c5?

  • Some of your photos are of the V.W.Scully/Algosound from the Movie

    The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

    Quite a diiferent looking boat!

  • i know, the...OMG! IF THE DOCUMENTARY WAS MADE IN 1978, (Which i think it was) WHY DID THEY NOT USE THE ARTHUR B. HOMER?!?

    It was the near sistership of the edmund fitzgerald.

  • That would have made much more sense :)

    I would have enjoyed the movie much more too!

  • Not to overlook or make light of the tragedy that this song is about, but: What are the odds that a song like this would not only be played on the radio in the '70s, but actually do well in the "top 40" (where disco and a lot of mindless pop lived)? The song is as appealing as it is emotional, which is a tribute to Lightfoot's songwriting, singing, and musicianship.

  • I used to live in Thunder Bay Ontario Yes Superior has a mean streak ! Such a terrible loss of good hard working men . And such a beautiful song one of my favorite . These men will be remembered memories don't die !!God take care of ALL of them please .

  • love it

  • When i was 4 years old, i knew every word to this song... i understood, even then, the hugeness of this tradegy and it's stuck with me all these years... A great long term memory, is blessing and a curse...

    regards,

    mattyofbuckley

  • when I was young, I used to listen to this song all the time, and still do. No one did it better then Gordon Lightfoot. Thanks!

  • some dude made that ship in VS7.(the sailing simulator.)it isn't PERFECT but any fitzgerald fans will like it

  • i for one who lives in wisconsin have been on superior may times...canoeing and ice fishing...this is a great song...

  • b-ing an acoustic singer/guitarist, i get asked to do this song quite frequently at most of my gigs. 1 of the greatest songs ever written. there are some who didn't know it was an actual true story.

  • Wow. Wow.

  • We will never forget.

    11/9/75

    R.I.P Gentlemen

  • Wow, it makes you think about life. It kindove gave me goosebumps and im glad that the spirit and story lives on.

  • amen !

  • Tsunami on a lake? Well, its Superior...

  • not a tsunami, rogue wave, VERY different.

    and on the lakes they hit fast and not very far between, so if a series of them hit the fitz she would not be able to recover from the 1st before the next was on her driving her into the bottom nose first. when she hit bottom she broke into, happened so fast no survivors.

  • MerlinsTempest2223, well said friend. All you can do is pray and learn from those who have gone before us.

    david

  • This song has haunted me for 30 years. A really moving tribute for these fellahs and their families. SO sad! God bless to all concerned.

  • are there any pictures of it underwater?

  • yes but not in this video.

  • It would be fairly eay to crew a ship that big with only 29 men as you must remember that they didn't need sails to help them get any where and people to work the sails, so really just the cooks the captains and a few engineers for their respective jobs and then the rest would be for just hepling or other miscellaneous jobs.

  • this song really is moving i live up in the U.P so we honor the sailors on that ship

  • live in wisconsin myself. ever research the life expectancy of a sailor on the great lakes a hundred-fifty years ago? the lakes are more dangerous than the oceans

  • Two freak-waves

  • There has never been a more beautiful and moving eulogy to the sailors and the ship they sailed upon, than this song.

  • i love this song! How could only 29 people work a ship that big?

  • The video that I watched figured when the ore slide to on end the boat struck the bottom with such force that it tore it in half.

  • I heard the top hatch was open and a freak wave the size of a tsunami came over and flooded the ship and it sank like a stone

  • wiki/Rogue_wave

  • no it was that the hatch had been damaged by heavy seas and so as the ship took on water she becane unstable and then took a rorouge wave by the stern witch pushed to bow of the ship under water and since the Fitzgerald was longer than the lake was deep at the point which she sank the bow hit the lake bed and the ship broke in 2 if u read see the wreck u see that if she broke up on the serface than there would have been a clean brake the mid section was crumpled showing that she hit bottom hard.

  • talk about a shitty bit of luck. the great lakes scare the life out of me. I'd feel safer taking a 30 footer sail boat through the ocean than the great lakes

  • you and most ocean going seamen!!

  • I am not sure but i dont think its the case of the ship being longer than the lake being deep, because if i understand right the Edmund Fitzgerald is under 800 feet of water

  • It is actually around 500-600 feet of water.

  • Been searching for the lyrics for a while now. Finally learned them and have watched the videos since I was 6. God rest the crew.

  • All they know is it's in two pieces on the bottom.(530') They don't know if it broke before it sank, or if it was from hitting the bottom.

  • no the coast guard has a lot of theories. they will never find the cause of the wreck. i think a wave pushed the taconite to the front and the fitz nosedived.

  • has anyone found the cause of th wreak.

  • pinkbaby there is a reason it was a stormy night. some of the bodies may still be inside. show some respect. stop it is not creepy. bodies die spirits dont. the men are in a better place. god bless

  • whut is creepy is none of the 29 bodys were found ooooooo spooky

  • the fitz was not in good shape. it was an boat that was used very well. god bless the 29 on her. i want to explore the boat so bad.

  • My dad worked at the Huron docks - he new Capt. Mcsorley who always ran fast - was never late - I was shooten hoops in the driveway when he came home early and said the Fitz went donw near WFB . . . like yesterday.

  • lets all try to show a little respect to the ship and all  thoes who died.!

  • sorry dude

  • never forget her beauty of ship and the crew!

  • i love the fitz.

  • The shot at 5:10 is cool. Thanks for remembering the 29.

  • god bless em all and if ya call the sea home than you really have lived

  • Great vid. Thanks.

  • I was 13 in 75 and I remembere this song and I love it.

  • man i cant believe i havent heard of this. and i LIVE near lake superior!

  • i love that pic at 2:22, the fizt and the armo

  • hes dead?

  • seriously kingrootbeer

  • The Fitzgerald took a huge wave from the stern and caused the bow to nose-dive to the bottom because she was flooding after the hull was compromised after passing over a shallow, rocky shoal at Carribou Island. This is the only logical explanation. The wave that doomed the Fitz had hit the Anderson miles behind her. It was only a matter of time. She was sinking regardless of the crew's efforts.

  • This is so true KingRootBeer, I was 3 at the time the Fitz went down and remember it like it was yesterday.

  • Beautiful video. some times i feel angry when people don't know that this really happened. I mean how ignorent can you get?

    Anyway, fantastic video.

  • People are too busy celebrating Brittney Spears' Birthday.

    Sad, isn't it?

  • coll

  • Hum this song almost every day...

  • great job,loved it!!

  • Thanks for posting this, job well done!

  • Northern pride

  • "Does anyone know where the love of G-d goes?" What an awful tradgedy. This is a great vid. Gordon Lightfoot would be proud if he saw it. Apparantly, the families of the victims loved this song and the hommage that it paid to their men. Thanks for the posting.

  • Best video montage that I've seen so far. I'm a writer (although not well known by any stretch) and this composition narrates the story quite nicely along with Lightfoot's dedication. A storied slice of American maritime history. Sullen, provocative, and a tragic reminder of those terrible north winds over Lake Superior. I'd love to get ahold of the rights to develop a treatment for the big screen. A tragedy worth remembering.

  • pearlake nice video can tou do one on the HMAS SYDNEY

    which was lost with all hands off western australia on

    november 19th 1941?

  • All these years and this still spooks me out. Dear God what those men went through...

  • Ditto

  • what they said...

  • Very well done.

  • very nice montage

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