The cast of interviewees is interesting:

1. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigation reports

2. Experienced captains of Great Lakes ships, e.g. one has 45 years a Great Lakes mariner, 18 as a captain.

3. "diver, documentary filmmaker, Great Lakes shipwreck historian and author of the 2022 book "Tattletale Sounds: The Edmund Fitzgerald investigations."

Imagine we were talking about IT systems - e.g., Google Cloud - and we had an outside expert panel that did a detailed investigation; long-time Google Cloud senior engineers; and a documentary filmmaker and author, who examined the (malfunctioned systems).

Who would you listen to? #3 gets most of the space in the article. I'd listen to #2 especially and certainly #1.

Here in Michigan the famous ship's sinking is always a news story each year. They ring the bell in Detroit at the Mariners Church and there is endless discussion of it in the media. I am certain if it were not for Gordon Lightfoot's famous song if anyone elsewhere would be familiar with it. Yet we still do not know why it sank.

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