"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Ocean waves are very far apart so even a 30 foot wave is no big deal,
great
lakes waves are very close together and very steep. Get down in the
trough
of an ocean wave and the water just rolls underneath you. Get in a
trough
of a good sized wave on the great lakes and you are looking at a near
verticle wall of water.

Remember the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"? That was a giant (729
foot) lake freighter, which was either broken in two or driven under by
the waves of a Great Lakes November storm. See http://www.ssefo.com/
fore more info.

The Great Lakes are nothing like an inland lake. I've watched many
awesome storms (thankfully from shore) that generated waves of almost
unbelievable violence, frequency and intensity.

And the closest I've ever felt to death was on a small car ferry,
crossing
"Death's Door" (the gap between Washington Island and Gill's Rock, at
the
tip of the Door Peninsula in Lake Michigan) during an October storm.
The
waves were awesome, and the skeletons of many, many wrecks litter the
bottom of Lake Michigan in that area.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The Edmund Fitzgerald ran aground and then sank.

Mike
MU-2

Nonsense...nobody knows for sure what sank the Fitz. The best guess is the
bow filled with water and she dove to the bottom. What caused her to fill
by the bow is unknown. The grounding story has been disproven due to the
supposed shoal being a chart error. The shoal she supposedly hit simply
does not exist.