LOST on the Great Lakes: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell

Опубликовано: 15 Январь 2022
на канале: Stunning History

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Today, we explore the life of the Daniel J. Morrell, a freighter whose career spanned some 60 years on North America’s Great Lakes — and whose fate was identical to that of another Great Lakes shipwreck nearly a decade later: the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Unlike the Fitzgerald disaster, however, which killed all 29 crewmen — one crewman DID manage to survive the Morrell, and his story reveals just how terrifying it is when a giant ship suddenly breaks apart in the middle of the night on the Great Lakes.

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Thank you to John Janzen for allowing me to incorporate his incredible diving footage to the Morrell. Watch his full footage here: • Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck, Lake Hur...

Listen to Dennis Hale's full NPR interview: https://www.npr.org/2013/12/06/249070...

Introduction: 0:00
Great Lakes history: 1:38
Launch: 2:44
Final day: 3:44
Disaster: 5:55
Rescue and aftermath: 9:38

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