Interviewer: [to girl's father] Why would she go out there in a boat? Out on the dangerous open seas.
Sy: It was a LAKE!!
SSB: It can get kind of choppy.
Sy: IT'S A LAKE!!!
SSB: Maybe there was a storm.
Sy: IT'S A LAKE!!!
SSB: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm.
Sy: On Lake Erie?!
SSB: No, on Lake Superior.
Sy: Oh! Now Lake Superior I could see. That's a BIG lake!!
I did not know it sunk in Lake Superior.
While watching the news about the NYC plane crash yesterday the TV anchor was trying to descibe Manhattan. "There's lots of water on both sides. Think of it as an island."
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said you can have big waves in small lakes, but when it happens everyone is surprised !!
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People die in lakes all the time. It is still water. I just heard a 3 year old drowned in his pond here in Aust.Another set of twins drowned in a water tank. Guess I shouldn't be paranoid but water is water.
AG, I do not understand people's fascination with the Fitzgerald. It seems to be the Titanic of the Great Lakes.
Lindsay, they were saying that the waves were 3-5 feet at the time, which I guess are pretty big, but I was out in at least 3 foot waves on the North Sea piloting a Zodiac boat and it was fun!
Wendy, this interviewer was talking about Lake Erie and Huron like they were the Straits of Magellan. The couple were in their late twenties-early thirties in a cabin boat and she was an experienced and disciplined boater so it is not like the dad should have been as concerned about her safety as this interviewer was implying; not anymore so than having her drive across the state anyway.
I heard that they had 8-10 foot waves on old Gitcheegumi the other day...too bad we weren't up there!
I saw that show - very creepy and strange. I think it was a murder / suicide, but it's hard to tell from the facts. I hate watching theose shows because they don't always give you all the details. I researched it a little on line and there may have been a third person on the boat that they picked up at a marina. The TV show failed to mention that angle.
Shamus, I had heard that witness said that they had eben arguing with someone on shore at their gas stop. I wonder if they think that it was that same person.