that show was pretty interesting, especially the "salty" language they let slip thru...
I had a few friends that were working for G/L shipping over the years, best story I heard was when my pal called me and told me he needed to get picked up because the boat he was on The Irving S. Olds, no small boat really, got run into from the stern by the ARMCO.... not a small boat, he told me they sounded the alarms almost a half hour before the colision, and just waited for it, as the ARMCO could not stop in the distance between them, and the Olds was locked into the Ice.....they just had to sit and wait for the crash.....what a trip.
got to go into the bowels of this beast once, when I was working for G&W industries, shipbuilders/repair in Cleveland..
http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/ama.htmthat was the last boat that saw the Edmund Fitzgerald, and first on the scene....
people really understimate the size of these beasts.......