![]() If you leaf through the pages (as I have a habit of doing with every book I read before I actually read it), you find a plethora of pictures and diagrams that help illustrate what he’s discussing. They’re that good.) You open it up and well………in mine he wrote a very cool inscription. One of the bubbles on the cover reads “Companion to the Bestselling Video!” (Don’t worry, you do not need both though I would suggest getting both. When you look at the cover it shows the Fitz in all it’s black and white glory. Eventually I received the book from him (I had sent him an art print, he sent me TattleTale Sounds, though I did try to protest. So I began to pick his brain here and there with questions. That kicked off the Great Lakes Shipwreck series, the first three prints of which are available at my online store. (You may disagree, but that’s okay) The Rouse Simmons, Le Griffon, and the Edmund Fitzgerald. Eventually it became the print that’s available at my shop of the three most famous shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. When I began to talk with him, I revealed I was an artist and he mentioned a print he would like to see someday. ![]() He is an affable and jovial fellow, very welcoming and open to communication. I’m not gonna repeat the conversation here, but he comes across online the exact same way he comes across if you view his presentations on Youtube. Me, being the annoying person that I am, decided to take him up on the offer and sent both a friend request and a DM. He’s known as a Great Lakes shipwreck afficionado and offered at every lecture that if we could find him on facebook, to send him a friend request. He was also present on the 1995 dive on the Fitz itself. His experience in reporting for various local market television stations, and producing documentaries for PBS shows. Ric comes across onscreen as an affable and jovial fellow. So let’s talk about him for a moment shall we? ![]() I began to watch as many presentations on the Fitz as I could prepping for the eventual stream. I found more information than I had before, but then had the bright idea to look on youtube. Google, here I come! Landing hard I started to look at all the articles I could, from Wikipedia to whatever. The result was that I wanted the to find the most updated information on the wreck of the Fitz. The author/presenter of that video got several things wrong or misinterpreted from the information, perhaps due to others doing the background research, or perhaps it’s outside of their normal wheelhouse. Remembering the interest I had in this subject before, I agreed and watched the podcast on youtube. Recently a friend of mine asked me to review a podcast with him on a stream that was about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November of 1975. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes is an interest in myself that has slept since my teen years.
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