The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
40°
Cloudy (86% humidity)
12 mph N (23 mph gusts)
DATE: Fri, Nov 13, 2026
PAX (4): Barn door, Caterpillar, Fiocchi, Crayola
BACKBLAST:

Warm up

The mighty Fitz- nic name

Experienced skipper, know for his mastery of the lakes 44 years in the lakes

Almost as big as the titanic

Took 4 days to locate 

Took 6months to take pictures 

2 pieces very significant because it’s likely a catastrophic event. 

2 7000 gallon a minute pumps

Lakes have waves because there’s no where else to go but up and they continue to build 

3 sister’s, 3 rouge waves in a row and the third is the biggest 

The distance between wavecreast become long and long. So long that the fitz was on both wavecrest and that caused it to split due to heavy cargo

29 Men passed away -29 

 

29 SSH

29 Raise the roofs 

29 High Knees 

The Thang

SS Edmund Fitzgerald 

Age ranged 20-62

 

8 Dairy Dashes – (dairy dash, 25 yard sprint x 8 of rows sprint there and back) Wisconsin crew 

 

21 Lunges L/R1  -Ohio crew 

“News week called it the largest object ever dropped into fresh water” 

23 squat jumps 1958 launch date 

3 Absolutions – Took 3 times to be christened 

18 Hand release merkins – 729 feet long 

15 Goblet squats Dry weight – 13,632 Tons 

16 block hop overs (L/R 1) Full speed 16.3 Mph

17 Heavy Freddies Was on the lakes for 17 years 

11 WW1 Max weights – 41,132 with full weight (27500 tons)

70 Burpees pot of gold 985,600,000 pellets per run (1 Billion)

3 connected storage bays – really just 1 

How many trips did it do? 748 on it’s final trip

1000 Step ups pot of gold  Estimated total 1Million miles 

40 WW1 Started back from Ohio 10/30 – when was it filled at the Al Louise Docks in Superior WI     11/9/1975 

Not going to Cleveland usual spot but instead going to Detroit

Arthur M Anderson -Other ship that went out looking – coast guard couldn’t go out 

Whitefish point 

15 Lunges  26116 thousand Long tons of taconite 

Average wave 25ft, 1 out of 100 were 36 feet 1 out of 1000 were 46 feet 

15 Man Makers – 15 feet of green water, meaning submerged 

Lost both of its radars 

7 Welsh dragons – Last contact just after 7pm – we are holding our own 

COT

Prayers for Barndoor M

Prayer for Crayola on his trip back to South Carolina

Prayers for growth of F3