radar showed three blips, saltwater ships, the navafors, the bavafors/b, and the benfri about 20 miles downbound. but no fitzgerald. in the span of just a few seconds, with no distress call, the fitzgerald was gone. ...
"it was one of the biggest and wildest seas i have ever been in, i mean fast," cedric woodard, pilot of the swedish vessel bavafors/b, told coast guard investigators. "the sea was straight up and down, and a lot of [waves] were coming at ...
At 4:30 that afternoon the Avafors, another vessel, reported that the Whitefish Bay beacon and light had been damaged by the storm. This was the beacon the Fitzgerald had been aiming for. Both the ship?s radars had been blown off by the ...
