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From: "Michael A. Graham" <magraham@ne*.co*>
To: "Capt JT" <captjt@mi*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Diving the Edmund Fitzgerald
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:13:29 -0500
JT...
To answer your question: the Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729' long steel bulk
freighter when she sank in 1975; at the time, she was one of the largest
vessels on the Great Lakes.  Today, the Fitz lies 530 feet beneath the
surface of Lake Superior.

The dive that Tysall and Mike Zee, his partner, made on the Fitz doesn't
really measure up as much of a dive, as dives go; they spent less than 15
minutes on the wreck...it was more of an issue of proving that it could be
done on open circuit scuba.  To get to the wreck, the pair followed the
tether of the surface ship's ROV; to say "I did it" is one thing, I suppose,
but so what?

It's an extremely hostile environment that proves absolutely nothing more
about these 2 than that they have more guts than brains.  Nobody's tried to
top their "accomplishment"...I don't believe that anybody really cares to
try.  Diving isn't about proving how "manly" you are...this dive did nothing
more than provide Tysall and his partner, Mike Zee, with "bragging rights".
By the way, following Tysall and Zee's "accomplishment", the families of the
crew members that perished on the Fitz successfully petitioned the Canadian
government to prohibit any further attempts to dive the wreck.

To your remarks about the man, JT...diving the Fitz does not make Tysall any
less of a liar; his claim to serving in the United States as a SEAL is,
apparently, still BS.

MAG

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