A long lost ship is found at last in the stormy waters of the Great Lakes. For decades, countless ships have been lost to the Great Lakes. Thanks to modern technology, their stories are finally being dragged from the depths.
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00:00the Great Lakes these massive inland seas contain one-fifth of all the world's fresh water
00:10big enough to create their own weather often bad if a storm is coming across the big lake
00:22there's really nothing to stop that energy from building up it's very deep it's very cold it can
00:27turn in a second and for those unfortunate enough to be crossing at the wrong time the ride can be
00:36deadly since the 1600s an estimated 8,000 ships have gone down killing as many as 30,000 people
00:46this area was just notorious to eating ships and big storms because those relics still are on the
00:56bottom this is the coastline for their graveyard every year a team from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
01:17goes in search of sunken vessels on this expedition they're surveying the waters of Lake Superior the
01:28largest and deepest of all the Great Lakes
01:47Bruce Lynn is the executive director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum team the way we search for
01:53shipwrecks out here in Lake Superior is we pull sonar behind our research vessel and that sonar covers
01:59a certain swath on the bottom of the lake but in order to do this we have to go back and forth we
02:04may not see anything for days we may not see anything for a couple of years it's almost like
02:09if you were on a lawnmower mowing your lawn you can see where the blades have cut that grass and has
02:14created that pattern so it allows us to see the bottom of the lake and if we're fortunate enough to
02:19actually find a shipwreck we can go back use the lower frequency get a closer look and then we can
02:31turn around and put our ROV down and we can actually get a better idea of what we're actually seeing
02:35an ROV or remotely operated vehicle is engineered to search at depths too great for divers
02:44the submersible feeds live images back to the team who stand for anything unusual maybe it's not a shipwreck at
03:05all might be a big pile of rocks a big clay formation on the bottom of the lake which there's plenty of that it's not
03:11often you look at it the first time around and absolutely no oh my gosh this is a shipwreck but
03:17there are times where that's the case and in the summer of 2021 that was precisely the case when
03:25the team made a major discovery the C.F. Curtis a cargo ship that hasn't been seen since 1914
03:43like other steamers of the time the Curtis was built for navigation and endurance
03:48in 1914 there was a tremendous amount of ship traffic on the lakes period world war one was
03:56just getting underway at that point many of these communities were still growing on the great lakes
04:00commerce was getting busier busier busier in the lakes themselves the lake superior you can look at as a big
04:06highway system when the Curtis left port she had two other vessels in tow the Marvin and the Peterson
04:19their cargo three million board feet of lumber and a crew of 28 you had many cases where you'd have one
04:29ship a steam ship that could be pulling barges with heavy-duty ropes attached to them to connect them all
04:35together like a little flotilla of ships traveling on the lake but that was pretty common because it was more
04:40economically sound cheaper way to transport those raw materials
04:48with the Curtis soon as we saw it with the side scan and we measured the length of it and saw that it was a steamer
04:55we knew what it was right away without putting the ROV down that's awesome man because there's nothing else in the
05:03area that would have been that size so sometimes you just know the detailed survey revealed a sunken vessel
05:11after more than a hundred years on the lake bed
05:17the bow still intact and the anchor still stowed spokes of the ship's wheel once used to change course
05:28engine and steam gauges eerily frozen in time the Curtis was pretty typical for its day it was a workhorse
05:41it was doing its job but it certainly wasn't the newest ship and it could find itself probably in
05:46trouble if the weather got really really bad they would really want to try to find a shelter if they
05:51go to the lake and get a shelter if they were in the lake but that Rick Mixter is an author and historian
05:56whose focus is investigating and documenting shipwrecks of the Great Lakes so Curtis Marvin and Peterson all
06:03pull into the Baraga area three different docks are now loading three million board feet of lumber the
06:13problem with lumber is that first of all the volume they would pack the inside of the ship they'd pack the top
06:18part of the deck and try to tow this through one area that could have very horrible storms
06:26soon after their departure a major storm swept through Lake Superior it's up to the captains really to
06:34make the decision on when to go they were very much meteorologists where they would check the barometric
06:39pressure they would watch the gauges in the pilot house to see if it was going low if a big storm was coming
06:45even in 1914 though we had fairly good weather reports where they could kind of say it looks
06:50like it's going to be good and if you look at the November 18th forecast it said fair skies and maybe
06:55some snow so when captain Jennings decided to go it was probably a good call but unfortunately the
07:03lakes can change on a dime could a freak November storm have taken down these three mighty ships
07:11because of our lakes getting much warmer in the summertime and they start to cool the evaporation
07:19causes extreme moisture to go into the air as we see these Arctic storms come down from Canada this
07:27feeds into a time between October and November to create storm systems that are unparalleled so we
07:34regularly see storms that come in that could blow for two days at 60 to almost 120 miles an hour
07:40newspaper articles from the time start to reveal the big picture we start to see headlines from
07:49especially the papers around the Detroit where the captain is overdue and then we start to see debris
07:55that comes in and the lifesaver reports come in so that's where we start to learn the real tragedy of
08:01this November gale that there's now 28 people who've lost their lives on three different ships and most of
08:08the Heinz fleet we don't really know but there's a belief that captain Jennings on board the Curtis
08:13was trying to steer that group in the Grand Marais to get in out of the conditions that would have been
08:17about the only harbor that he would have had between leaving Baraga in the other side of the upper
08:22peninsula of Michigan and making his way to Whitefish Point and then eventually the Sioux Oxen down to
08:26Tonjuan to New York where all three of those vessels were destined to go
08:29the weather clearly played a huge part and was really the reason those ships sank the three ships
08:40were a total loss a trail of destruction left in their wake a lot of these shipwrecks you read the
08:47newspapers from the day do your research and you can get ideas of either where they sank and get ideas of
08:53what happened on the final moments where the ship broke up and sank and often those are pretty dramatic
08:58stories we start to see things that normally wouldn't be cast into the lake and this goes
09:04out into massive areas around the shipwreck so we'll see incredible things like personal effects of the
09:10crew we also saw an actual grinding stone a hand-cranked grinding stone which could have been used to
09:17sharpen the axe that was used to sever the line of these tow vessels so to see something that might have
09:23been directly involved in the actual wrecking process it's amazing to see it every little piece
09:33that we find on the bottom it's all a piece of the history that's been lost on here for a hundred years
09:40and we learn about the people we learn about the technology of that time period we learn about the
09:47industry of of lumber that was really on its way out from Michigan at this point so these are all
09:52locked into a time capsule 460 feet down
09:56the debris field here it to me it humanizes the shipwreck
10:05this shows us this is a place where people lived in line aside from having any trace of a crewman
10:12you know this is what really shows us that this is where people lived breathed worked and it's just
10:20amazing to see the bits and pieces that are out there and it tells a story every time
10:23but finding the Curtis only tells part of the story the Marvin and the Peterson also disappeared during that
10:35fateful storm
10:36the team spent another year combing the area looking for the other two vessels
10:55finally a clue we left whitefish point early in the morning and we started searching our monster grid and we saw an image almost a half mile out but it didn't look like a shipwreck didn't have a shadow
11:13yeah so it was unique enough to where we turned around and went look at it we went right over the top of it
11:22and it was definitely a shipwreck look at it there's the bow right there it was pretty exciting because we didn't expect to find anything we were just towing the sonar just to go get fuel
11:37all right we're coming up on it for the first time so how long that day had you been searching
11:47this is about the seventh hour wow okay and how many miles from the Curtis wreck
11:52five we got a shipwreck buddy finally you got one see I spotted that thing I told you
12:00it was by that other debris field we were looking at oh my god that's a shipwreck
12:05if we go to the next side scanning because we pass it three or four times
12:11so we zoom in again now we know it's a ship we're going to try to go down the side of it
12:17sure it could be the Peterson or the Marfa that we were looking for
12:23that is awesome this image gives us a really good side view of the shadow
12:31even though I cut the ship yeah you see all the mass standing right there in the bow
12:38and look how that's torn off right the stern is torn apart but you can still see the two scupper holes
12:44yeah oh yeah yeah look at the damage so that means we're looking right through that side
12:49yeah yeah was this ripped off as the center vessel in a toe they are one step closer to solving the
12:58mystery of what happened to either the Marvin or the Peterson in 1914 but still they need proof
13:05the following day they head out again
13:16the team has located their wreck
13:24now they need to figure out which one of these two ships pictured in the lineup behind the Curtis
13:31is lying on the sea floor to try to better understand how the Marvin saying how the how
13:39the Curtis went down how the Peterson sank we don't really know there are certain clues that we can pick
13:46up when we put the ROV down
14:01that's the back of the boat yeah
14:03can we drop some shades yes please
14:09in the control room the shipwreck team can watch the live feed
14:16165
14:19we just search back and forth and then forth and back
14:26the ROV descends to depths of almost 650 feet
14:32you can actually zoom in and see the bottom of the lake
14:35giving them their first up-close look at their suspected target
14:41what we're hoping we're going to be seeing here is one of the two schooner barges that the
14:54Curtis was towing but with any luck we'll see some identifying characteristics and hopefully we'll see a name board
15:00we're sitting right over the wreck it looks like
15:06actually we're coming up on the blue line so we're 200 feet from the bottom
15:11I'm going towards the shipwreck so
15:15do you feel me pulling any line
15:17I got 40 feet to go to get to it
15:21coming up on the hull
15:24you know it's one
15:30sitting up nicely off the bottom of the lake
15:34I'm trying to come up don't keep feeding me
15:36nice image there
15:48we're the first to see it since world war one
15:53those are scupper holes
15:55nice square scupper holes
15:57if you look at the sonar it looks like it's the crow's nest up above it too
16:02yeah it kind of does
16:03see that's a 30 foot 12
16:04yep
16:05oh lumber
16:07oh yeah
16:08there you go
16:08three million board feet
16:11we're on the three vessels when it went down
16:13looks like some cables
16:17that's rigging
16:18from the mass
16:20some nice white paint
16:23we're in the bow
16:25yeah
16:26that should be the letters
16:27yeah it could be
16:29you're talking right here right
16:30yeah
16:31wait on now
16:33look at that
16:34oh my god that is fantastic
16:36pines lumber right across the top
16:38and then right here
16:39well we know it's one of the two
16:40yeah
16:41I think we're seeing the Peterson here
16:47I want to go around the bow to look at the name on the other side
16:51there's a tow line tied to the front bits
16:56look at that
16:57oh yeah
16:58but that's incredible to think that's what severed
17:03all right I'm gonna head towards the stern
17:07so I'm coming back to where we started
17:10if the tow line is at the stern
17:16then we're looking at the Peterson
17:17so we hope we have the order
17:19of what they are
17:20yeah
17:21and that that could be
17:22sometimes your sources will tell you different things
17:25it's amazing how many times you read those newspaper articles from the day
17:30and you get completely different stories
17:32I still amaze sometimes with the colors
17:37I think those are letters in the light
17:40I thought so too
17:41oh my god
17:43it's a Marvin
17:44oh my gosh
17:46that is incredible
17:48that is great
17:51mystery solved
17:54wow
17:54that's beautiful
17:55that is cool
17:56even though we're not divers
17:59and we're on the wreck
18:00through the camera on this ROV
18:02we're the first human eyes
18:04to look at this thing since 1914
18:07looks like the stern got pulled apart
18:17yeah it sure does
18:19look at it's got that same rudder post
18:25boy it did break the stern right up
18:29I thought so
18:31that's because it was towing
18:32this should have been last in line
18:35that's what I thought too
18:36you don't know now
18:37you know that's easy
18:40that those sources could have been wrong
18:42yeah
18:42and I bet if we read enough articles
18:45we'd find the one that said the order was reversed
18:47if you see a tow line on it
18:49that would be
18:50that is really ripped up
18:52wow
18:53I have to imagine this thing sank really fast
18:57the way the stern is ripped out of the back of the Marvin here
19:00that does make us wonder
19:02did the Peterson sink first
19:04and then tear the stern out of the Marvin
19:05that could be a part of an anchor there
19:08that's the tow line
19:09that is a tow line
19:10wow
19:11what do we have there
19:14it almost looks like a piece of canvas
19:16yeah
19:16it looks like a jacket or something
19:18yeah
19:19that was the tow line we saw on the sight scan
19:23that's pretty impressive
19:24I'm at the top of the mass
19:27I'll start back to the surface
19:29my pulse rate can go back down now
19:33and yet we still get surprised
19:36I would have put all money on Peterson
19:38Peterson, yeah
19:39I wanted the Peterson bed
19:40yeah
19:54we think about a lot of different things
19:59when we look at that ship
20:00the way it is sitting on the bottom of the lake
20:01you can see parts of that vessel
20:04that were the living quarters
20:07the work locations
20:09or the work spaces on board that ship
20:11so you think a little bit about the people
20:13that were working there
20:14what was going through their minds
20:15in those last minutes
20:16did they know
20:18that their ship was about to break up and sink
20:20did they have any idea
20:21what was happening
20:22to the other vessels around them
20:23but by looking at that ship
20:25it tells us a lot about the vessel itself
20:28the architecture of a ship of that type
20:30let alone the clues that it gives us
20:32as to what eventually happened to it
20:33the Marvin was a real surprise for me
20:37because not only was it missing
20:39most of its upper deck
20:40but we didn't know which ship it could be
20:43the revelation was immediately
20:45that the Marvin was not the last vessel in the tow
20:47that they must have been in the middle
20:49because of the two tow lines that we saw
20:52and because of the massive damage that had been done
20:54we also saw the deck completely missing
20:57was it a capsizing ship
20:59that pulled not only on the Curtis's back end
21:02but also maybe did damage to the Peterson as well
21:05there's still things that need to be done
21:07you've got a crew that would be very excited
21:10to go back and actually see what else can be found there
21:13the question is where's the Peterson
21:15all of these start to get answered
21:17as we bring these clues up from the bottom
21:19as our robot goes down and records what's there
21:23that starts to bring new information up for us
21:25to tell more of those stories
21:27by finding these clues
21:30that helps us to really tell what happened
21:32to all three ships
21:33now that we have positively identified
21:42the Selden E. Marvin
21:43on this beautiful day out here in Lake Superior
21:46I think we should probably take a moment
21:48to remember Captain Fred Anderson
21:50and his crew of six
21:52that was on board this vessel when it went down
21:54so let's have a moment of silence to remember them
21:57our captain here of the Void Daryl
22:02is going to give a salute to that crew of seven
22:05and let's also remember the crew of the Peterson
22:08and also of the Curtis as well
22:27the sudden and violent storms of the Great Lakes
22:31have taken down thousands of ships
22:34never to be seen again
22:37but as technology has improved over the past decades
22:45wreck investigators are beginning to shed light
22:49on these lost but not forgotten souls
22:52in Lake Michigan
22:55a group of divers descends into the lake
22:57pushing safe limits
23:00to unlock a secret
23:02a secret that faded into history
23:06for more than a century
23:07what they discovered
23:11was the final chapter
23:13in an unbelievable journey
23:14that started in 2010
23:16when a wreck hunter
23:20happened upon a clue of a lifetime
23:22that started in 2015
23:24Brendan Baylod
23:26a maritime historian
23:27spent years combing through written and oral reports
23:30Brendan's target
23:32a 300-foot giant
23:35a massive ship that vanished in Lake Michigan in 1898
23:39the L.R. Doty
23:42she was one of the last wooden steamships
23:49built at the end of the 19th century
23:52when shipbuilding was moving from wooden sailing ships
23:55to steel steamers
23:57the L.R. Doty was a massive wooden freighter
24:02it took over 50 acres of white oak
24:05to build that ship
24:06she was nearly 300 feet long
24:09and really kind of the boxcar of her day
24:12they spared no expense
24:14in building the Doty and her sisters
24:16because they really were
24:17in the pride of the fleet at the time
24:19and some of the largest vessels on the lakes
24:21in the early 1890s
24:22the Doty's trips on the Great Lakes
24:28spread far and wide
24:29often carrying her primary cargo
24:32of iron ore and coal
24:34for additional cargo capacity
24:37the Doty always towed
24:39a four-masted barge
24:40the Olive Jeanette
24:43vessels often went out in conditions
24:49that were less than ideal
24:50people think the Great Lakes
24:56are just this placid lake
24:57beautiful with light waves
24:59when they do see these storms
25:01move in
25:02and this beautiful lake
25:04turns into this massive fury
25:06of waves that are 35 or 40 feet tall
25:08they just don't understand
25:10that the lakes can harbor that much energy
25:12and turn it into a storm
25:13but no matter the conditions
25:16the ships had to sail
25:18especially during the colder months
25:20first had to go on
25:23when the weather got bad
25:24these vessels that we're talking about
25:26were commercial vessels
25:28they had to move
25:28they had to generate income
25:30they couldn't sit around
25:31and so
25:33they were forced out into situations
25:36where the local yachtsman
25:37or somebody might not go
25:38great lakes lore abounds
25:44with legends of ships
25:45struck down by bad weather
25:46such was the case
25:48with the L.R. Doty
25:49Brendan Baylod
25:51stumbles across
25:52a harrowing tale
25:53in a Chicago newspaper
25:54dated October 1898
25:57I was researching
25:59and found an early periodical
26:00that contained
26:01a fascinating
26:02first person account
26:03from the cook
26:03of the Olive Jeanette
26:04the cook was identified
26:08as Frances Brown
26:09from a century away
26:12her words
26:12taken down by a reporter
26:14float off the page
26:15when a line parted
26:18and the Doty began
26:19to leave us
26:20I could see her stern sinking
26:22I knew she would never
26:24see land then
26:24I thought we would
26:26never see land either
26:28Brendan notices another puzzling
26:34aspect to this woman's account
26:35in the newspaper
26:39she's listed as
26:40Miss Frances Brown
26:42we find her
26:43in the Olive Jeanette
26:44crew list
26:45as Frankie Waters
26:46cook
26:46I'm pretty sure
26:48that her real name
26:48was Frankie Waters
26:50we hadn't any business
26:51going out into that
26:52weather last Monday
26:53she was apparently
26:56unwilling to give
26:57her real name
26:58to a reporter
26:58but what interests
27:01Brendan most
27:02about Frankie Waters
27:03has nothing to do
27:04with the woman herself
27:05it's her description
27:08of the L.R. Doty
27:09sinking in a place
27:10where no one expected it
27:11more than 60 miles
27:13north of Chicago
27:14near Milwaukee
27:15and that changed
27:18the whole landscape
27:19of the L.R. Doty
27:19for me
27:20because prior to that
27:21we had no real
27:22solid account
27:23of where she was
27:24last seen
27:24everyone assumed
27:28that Doty went down
27:28further south
27:29off Kenosha
27:30where much of her
27:31debris washed up
27:33here we show
27:35where the debris
27:35was found
27:36from the L.R. Doty
27:3740 hours after
27:38she was last seen
27:39up here
27:41we see
27:41where Frankie Waters
27:43last reported
27:44seeing the L.R. Doty
27:45based on the wind direction
27:46I've figured
27:47that she would be
27:48right about
27:49where this X is
27:50many failed
27:53looking for
27:54this sunken giant
27:55and Brendan's
27:58research revealed
27:59why
28:00they were looking
28:01in the wrong place
28:03hey Jerry
28:06Brendan teamed up
28:08with diver
28:08Jerry Geyer
28:09to help him
28:10narrow down
28:11the search field
28:11we always thought
28:14she was off
28:14Kenosha
28:14because that's
28:15where the debris
28:15was found
28:16but the account
28:16says she was
28:17last seen
28:17seven miles
28:18north of Milwaukee
28:19but saying
28:21the Doty
28:22went down
28:22off Milwaukee
28:23left a vast
28:24potential search area
28:25that's where
28:26Jerry's recent
28:27findings came
28:28into play
28:29here's my numbers
28:31a commercial
28:31fisherman
28:32talking about
28:33one of their
28:33major snags
28:34out here
28:35and he gave me
28:35the numbers
28:36said that I should
28:36check it out
28:37I went out
28:38and I went over it
28:38and it stands
28:39off the bottom
28:4020 some feet
28:41and it's large
28:42was this target
28:44on the bottom
28:44of Lake Michigan
28:45the missing
28:46LR Doty
28:47with the combined
28:52findings
28:53Brendan approached
28:54Jitka Hanakova
28:55a deep water
28:56wrecked diver
28:57from the Czech
28:58Republic
28:58said look
29:00this is
29:01where the LR Doty
29:02is probably
29:03located
29:04and I said
29:06well that's
29:07about 300 feet
29:07down
29:08quite divable
29:09we can go
29:09down and find
29:10out for sure
29:11on a crisp
29:19September morning
29:20they made
29:21their final gear
29:21checks
29:22with limited
29:28space on the
29:28boat
29:29Brendan had
29:30to sit
29:30this one out
29:31so just try
29:32to get what
29:33Brendan wants
29:33out of the
29:34wreck
29:35so we get
29:35at least
29:36good shots
29:36of what we
29:37need
29:37the skies
29:39were darkening
29:40Captain Hanakova
29:42takes a chance
29:43that the weather
29:44won't get worse
29:45we are open
29:46for good seas
29:47also
29:47over
29:48over a century
29:52ago
29:53the captains
29:53of the LR Doty
29:54and the Olive
29:55Jeanette
29:56took a similar
29:57chance
29:57on a blustery
29:59October afternoon
30:00they sailed
30:01north from Chicago
30:02with a cargo
30:03of corn
30:03worth a million
30:04dollars today
30:05October was a
30:07time in the lakes
30:08where they really
30:08needed to get
30:09cargoes delivered
30:09in the fall
30:10there was a big
30:11demand for them
30:12and it was not
30:13at all uncommon
30:13to overload ships
30:15to try to get
30:15a lot of grain
30:16in late in the
30:17season
30:17there was a couple
30:19of reports
30:19that the Doty
30:20was significantly
30:21overloaded
30:22and I have no
30:23reason to doubt
30:23them
30:23it's a moneymaker
30:26for the captain
30:27but only if he
30:29reaches his final
30:30destination
30:30riding low
30:34makes them
30:35susceptible
30:36to the waves
30:36that can strike
30:37this time
30:37of year
30:38a hundred
30:40years ago
30:41the Department
30:42of Agriculture
30:43published daily
30:44weather maps
30:44and updates
30:46were sent
30:47via telegraph
30:48to major
30:48shipping ports
30:49but once a
30:52captain set
30:53sail
30:53he's on his
30:54own
30:55we didn't
30:56have technology
30:57where they
30:57could transmit
30:58the weather
30:59conditions
30:59at that time
31:00to the folks
31:01who were on
31:01the Great Lakes
31:02so they were
31:03left with
31:04what information
31:04was available
31:05which was
31:06merely looking
31:06at the sky
31:07and the wind
31:07direction
31:08and the warm
31:08temperatures
31:09they had to
31:10sail off of
31:11their gut
31:12instinct
31:12even today
31:14it's hard to
31:15know how
31:16Great Lakes
31:16weather might
31:17change from
31:17hour to hour
31:18I'm just going
31:20to hang on
31:20the surface
31:21to you
31:21I see you
31:21guys descending
31:22from 20
31:2324 miles
31:25southeast of
31:25Milwaukee
31:26surrounded by
31:27a vast expanse
31:28of Lake Michigan
31:28the weather
31:30holds for
31:30the dive
31:30team
31:31with their
31:36depth finder
31:36they relocate
31:38the large
31:38object
31:39Jerry Geyer
31:39found 300
31:40feet below
31:41when I knew
31:43this was a
31:43big target
31:44on the bottom
31:44at least 200
31:45feet long
31:46I thought
31:48it could have
31:49been the
31:49other Doddy
31:50but I also
31:51thought it
31:52could have
31:52been other
31:53ships lost
31:54just begun
31:56to scratch
31:56the surface
31:57of this wreck
31:57the search
32:00team was
32:00composed of
32:01three of
32:01the Great
32:02Lakes
32:02most experienced
32:03wreck divers
32:04Tracy Zolowski
32:07is diving
32:08with traditional
32:08open circuit
32:09scuba gear
32:10feeling good
32:11John Jansen
32:16and John
32:17Scholes
32:17carry out
32:18final checks
32:19on their
32:19rebreathers
32:20these
32:27closed circuit
32:28breathing systems
32:28remove carbon
32:29dioxide
32:30and replenish
32:31oxygen
32:31allowing longer
32:32bottom time
32:33than regular
32:34scuba
32:34the rebreather
32:43also produces
32:44no bubbles
32:45that might stir
32:46up a blinding
32:47cloud of silt
32:47when a diver
32:48enters a wreck
32:49John Jansen
32:53John Scholes
32:54and myself
32:54were the
32:55first team
32:55down
32:55and at
32:59about
32:59250 feet
33:01you could
33:02start to
33:02see the wreck
33:03we were
33:03hooked
33:03right at
33:04the stern
33:04right over
33:05the boiler
33:06room
33:06and we
33:08knew then
33:09that we
33:09had our
33:09work cut
33:10out for
33:10us
33:10the wreck
33:17is wrapped
33:18in a
33:18gray cloak
33:19made from
33:20millions
33:20of living
33:21creatures
33:21quagga
33:23mussels
33:23not native
33:27to the
33:28US
33:28this
33:29invasive
33:29hitchhiker
33:30from ocean
33:31going
33:31vessels
33:31colonized
33:32much
33:33of Lake
33:33Michigan
33:34and covers
33:38almost every
33:39surface
33:39of the
33:40deep
33:40water
33:40wreck
33:41the
33:44divers
33:45pass
33:45over
33:46cargo
33:46holes
33:46as they
33:47work
33:47their
33:47way
33:48to
33:48the
33:48bow
33:48out of
33:54the
33:54darkness
33:55looms
33:55a possible
33:56clue
33:56wheelbarrows
34:00used to
34:01carry coal
34:01on
34:02steamships
34:02like the
34:05Doty
34:05they reached
34:19the bow
34:19where Tracy
34:28Zalowski
34:28found what
34:29he was
34:29looking for
34:30on the
34:30port side
34:31there
34:35after more
34:36than a
34:36hundred
34:36years
34:37is the
34:37name
34:38Doty
34:42miraculously
34:43spared
34:44by the
34:44quagga
34:45mussels
34:45they had
34:47done it
34:47the team
34:48had found
34:49the L.R.
34:50Doty
34:50the pilot
34:54house
34:54on the
34:54section
34:55of the
34:55bow
34:55that
34:55bore
34:56the
34:56ship's
34:56name
34:56was
34:57completely
34:57flipped
34:58over
34:58the
35:00waves
35:00that
35:01tore
35:01the
35:01bow
35:01in two
35:02also
35:02stripped
35:03the
35:03Doty's
35:03decks
35:04something
35:04swept
35:05the deck
35:05clean
35:06there's
35:06almost
35:07nothing
35:07on the
35:08whole
35:08deck
35:08you know
35:09the
35:0930
35:09footers
35:10here
35:10could
35:11easily
35:11wash
35:12a
35:12cabin
35:12off
35:13of
35:13a
35:13ship
35:13these
35:14storms
35:15here
35:15are
35:15as
35:15bad
35:16or
35:16even
35:16sometimes
35:17worse
35:17than
35:17out
35:18on
35:18the
35:18ocean
35:18not
35:21wanting
35:21to
35:21push
35:21her
35:22own
35:22luck
35:22with
35:22the
35:22Great
35:23Lakes
35:23weather
35:23Yitka
35:24headed
35:24to
35:25Milwaukee
35:25where
35:26the
35:26divers
35:26share
35:26their
35:27fine
35:27with
35:27a
35:28man
35:28whose
35:28painstaking
35:29research
35:29pinpointed
35:30where
35:30to
35:30look
35:31oh my
35:32god
35:33there
35:34it
35:34is
35:35wow
35:35now
35:36you know
35:36what
35:36this
35:36thing
35:36is
35:37huh
35:37this
35:38is
35:38something
35:39saying
35:39the
35:39name
35:39for
35:39the
35:39first
35:40time
35:40wow
35:41well
35:43when that
35:44seals
35:44it
35:44it's
35:45her
35:45but
35:49their
35:49find
35:49opened
35:50up
35:50two
35:50new
35:50mysteries
35:51why
35:54did
35:54the
35:54powerful
35:54and
35:54majestic
35:55L.R.
35:55Doty
35:56end up
35:56on the
35:57floor
35:57of
35:57Lake
35:57Michigan
35:58and
35:59how
35:59did
35:59the
36:00older
36:00sail
36:01powered
36:01Olive
36:01Jeanette
36:02and her
36:03cook
36:03manage
36:03to
36:04survive
36:04Brendan
36:08and the
36:08dive
36:08team
36:09wrestled
36:09with
36:09difficult
36:10questions
36:10that
36:10came
36:11to
36:11light
36:11in
36:11the
36:12video
36:12evidence
36:12from
36:13the
36:13wreck
36:13of
36:13the
36:13L.R.
36:14Doty
36:14Is
36:15it
36:15still
36:15affixed
36:16to
36:16its
36:16original
36:16location
36:17or
36:17is
36:17it
36:17torn
36:17free
36:18and
36:18moved
36:18down
36:18the
36:18deck
36:19we
36:19can
36:19tell
36:19it's
36:20okay
36:20but
36:20it's
36:21upright
36:21could
36:22the
36:22Doty
36:22sinking
36:22have
36:23something
36:23to do
36:23with
36:24the
36:24vessel
36:24she
36:24was
36:24towing
36:25the
36:25Olive
36:25Jeanette
36:26Kip
36:30files
36:30his
36:30captain
36:31of a
36:31sailing
36:31schooner
36:32similar
36:32to
36:32the
36:32Olive
36:33Jeanette
36:33he's
36:34aboard
36:34a
36:34modern
36:35tugboat
36:35as
36:36the
36:36crew
36:36sets
36:36up
36:37the
36:37tow
36:37line
36:37to
36:38a
36:38barge
36:38and
36:40we'll
36:40roll
36:40the
36:40tug
36:41away
36:41from
36:41the
36:42barge
36:42and
36:42put
36:43it
36:43under
36:43tow
36:43Kip's
36:44trying
36:44to
36:44imagine
36:45what
36:45it
36:45would
36:46have
36:46been
36:46like
36:46a
36:46century
36:46ago
36:47when
36:48the
36:48steam
36:48powered
36:48Doty
36:49was
36:49towing
36:49the
36:50sail
36:50powered
36:50Olive
36:51Jeanette
36:51They might
36:52have
36:52had
36:52something
36:53like
36:53a
36:53capson
36:54that
36:54looks
36:54similar
36:54to
36:55this
36:55steam
36:56driven
36:56instead of
36:57hydraulically
36:57driven
36:57The reason
36:58he's letting
36:59out
36:59the tow
36:59wire
37:00is
37:00so
37:00the
37:00vessel
37:00can
37:01maneuver
37:01Now this
37:02is probably
37:02very close
37:03to what
37:04the
37:04Doty
37:04had to
37:04do
37:05to get
37:05the
37:05Jeanette
37:06off the
37:06dock
37:06and stuff
37:06This is
37:07the type
37:08of maneuvering
37:08they would
37:08have had
37:09to have
37:09done
37:09Watch as
37:10this cable
37:10starts to
37:11come up
37:11and take
37:11tension
37:12Watch the
37:13forces
37:14evolve
37:14Feel this
37:17vessel
37:17stop
37:18Feel it
37:19But in
37:211898
37:22the L.R.
37:23Doty
37:23would have
37:24had to
37:24make do
37:25with a
37:25single
37:256-inch
37:26rope
37:26hauser
37:27attached
37:27to a
37:28single
37:28post
37:29in the
37:29Olive
37:29Jeanette's
37:30bow
37:30instead
37:31of a
37:32tow wire
37:32with ropes
37:33fastened
37:33to each
37:34corner
37:34of the
37:34barge
37:35That's
37:37known as
37:37the
37:37bridle
37:38so it
37:38can
37:38pull
37:39efficiently
37:39If it
37:40was just
37:40on one
37:41side
37:41or the
37:41other
37:41if it
37:42was on
37:42the far
37:43corner
37:43it would
37:44pull
37:44and it
37:44would
37:45pull that
37:45barge
37:45around
37:46and the
37:46barge
37:46would want
37:46to go
37:47that
37:47way
37:47Because on
37:48this
37:48corner
37:48if it
37:48pulled
37:49it
37:49would want
37:49to go
37:49that
37:49way
37:50So it
37:50pulls
37:50the
37:51centered
37:51effort
37:51See the
37:52bridle
37:53there
37:53In
37:56spite of
37:57these
37:57shortcomings
37:57the
37:58Doty
37:58steamed
37:59through
37:59the
37:59night
37:59towing
38:00the
38:00olive
38:01dinette
38:01with
38:01its
38:01single
38:026-inch
38:02rope
38:03houser
38:03The
38:06advancing
38:06low-pressure
38:07system
38:07tested
38:08the rope
38:08strength
38:09We had
38:11counterclockwise
38:12rotation
38:13around the
38:13low-pressure
38:13center
38:14and it
38:14was
38:14deepening
38:15Once it
38:16traveled
38:16over
38:16the Great
38:17Lakes
38:17it picked
38:18up all
38:18of that
38:19latent
38:19energy
38:19from Lake
38:20Michigan
38:21which
38:21was
38:21warm
38:21moist
38:22air
38:22to
38:22feed
38:23that
38:23storm
38:23The
38:24Doty
38:24and her
38:25charge
38:25sailed
38:26straight
38:26into the
38:27Great
38:27Lake's
38:27equivalent
38:27of the
38:28perfect
38:28storm
38:29what
38:30locals
38:31call
38:31a
38:32weather
38:32bomb
38:32But
38:35commercial
38:35vessels
38:36then
38:37as
38:37now
38:37have
38:38different
38:38priorities
38:39than
38:39fishermen
38:40or
38:40pleasure
38:40boats
38:40They're
38:42paid
38:42to keep
38:43going
38:43and
38:44deliver
38:44cargoes
38:45on
38:45time
38:46At
38:47around
38:485 p.m.
38:48the wind
38:49abruptly
38:50shifts
38:50direction
38:51Instead
38:52of pushing
38:52both ships
38:53north
38:53towards
38:54their
38:54destination
38:54it's
38:55now
38:56hitting
38:56them
38:56in
38:56the
38:57bow
38:57The
38:58waves
38:58grew
38:59taller
38:59and
38:59taller
39:0030
39:02to
39:0240
39:02mile
39:03an
39:03hour
39:03winds
39:03howled
39:04down
39:04over
39:04the
39:05length
39:05of
39:05Lake
39:05Michigan
39:06sending
39:09steep
39:09waves
39:0920
39:10feet
39:11high
39:11Pounding
39:14waves
39:14caused
39:15the
39:15towline
39:15to
39:16suddenly
39:16tighten
39:16and
39:17then
39:17slack
39:17it
39:18It's
39:19called
39:19shock
39:19loading
39:20We're
39:21trying to
39:21avoid
39:22that
39:22so
39:22one
39:23one
39:23one's
39:23not
39:23coming
39:24up
39:24on
39:24a
39:24wave
39:24you're
39:24coming
39:25down
39:25you
39:26pace
39:26it
39:26is that
39:27the
39:27term
39:27in
39:27step
39:28in
39:28step
39:28okay
39:29so
39:29in
39:29step
39:29so
39:30you
39:30would
39:30try
39:31to
39:31get
39:33them
39:33so
39:33they're
39:33both
39:34riding
39:34up
39:34and
39:34down
39:34the
39:34waves
39:35if
39:36you
39:36couldn't
39:37do
39:37that
39:37there
39:37would
39:37be
39:37a
39:37tremendous
39:38amount
39:38of
39:38shock
39:38load
39:39absolutely
39:39right
39:40To
39:42find
39:42out
39:42the
39:42effect
39:43of
39:43that
39:43shock
39:43loading
39:44KIPP
39:44files
39:45visits
39:45a
39:45modern
39:45rope
39:46manufacturer
39:47A
39:49scaled
39:49down
39:49model
39:50of
39:50the
39:50rope
39:50used
39:51to
39:51tow
39:51the
39:51olive
39:51genet
39:52was
39:52placed
39:53in
39:53a
39:53test
39:53bed
39:54it's
39:55designed
39:55to
39:55simulate
39:56wave
39:56action
39:56so
39:58now
39:58in
39:58its
39:58first
39:59cycle
39:59it's
39:59just
39:59coming
40:00up
40:00past
40:00a
40:00thousand
40:01pounds
40:01that's
40:021200
40:03pounds
40:03so
40:03now
40:03it's
40:03going
40:04to
40:04relax
40:04that
40:04represents
40:05the
40:05shock
40:06of
40:06the
40:06vessel
40:06coming
40:06back
40:07the
40:07shock
40:08between
40:08the
40:08two
40:08vessels
40:09the
40:10test
40:11approaches
40:11the
40:11one
40:12hour
40:12mark
40:12now
40:13we're
40:13upwards
40:14of
40:1461
40:1662
40:16waves
40:17right
40:18and
40:18bang
40:19and
40:20bang
40:20there
40:20it
40:21goes
40:21she
40:23broke
40:24just
40:24like
40:24you
40:24told
40:24me
40:24she
40:25would
40:25right
40:25here
40:25at
40:26the
40:26turn
40:26right
40:26at
40:26the
40:26capsule
40:26right
40:27that's
40:27where
40:27the
40:28weak
40:28spot
40:28was
40:28so
40:29we've
40:29lost
40:29one
40:30strand
40:30at
40:30that
40:31particular
40:31load
40:32now
40:33if
40:34there
40:34were
40:34another
40:34wave
40:34right
40:35you
40:35can
40:35imagine
40:36where
40:36we're
40:36going
40:36to
40:36go
40:37next
40:37once
40:39one
40:39goes
40:39it's
40:39a
40:39terminal
40:40effect
40:40so
40:40they're
40:41not
40:41going
40:41to
40:41and
40:41they
40:42may
40:42not
40:42have
40:42known
40:43that
40:43the
40:44LR
40:44Doty
40:44was
40:45about
40:45seven
40:45miles
40:46north
40:46of
40:46Milwaukee
40:46when
40:47the
40:47towline
40:48broke
40:48between
40:49her
40:49and
40:49the
40:49Olive
40:50Jeanette
40:50free
40:52from the
40:52dead
40:52weight
40:53of the
40:53Olive
40:53Jeanette
40:54the
40:54large
40:55steamship
40:55should
40:56have
40:56survived
40:56perhaps
41:00the wreck
41:00itself
41:01may show
41:01why
41:01the
41:02Doty
41:02went
41:02down
41:02to
41:05Brendan
41:06and the
41:06dive
41:06team
41:06the
41:07wide
41:07open
41:08deck
41:08hatches
41:08strongly
41:09suggest
41:09how
41:10the
41:10Doty
41:10met
41:10her
41:10fate
41:11what
41:12I
41:12would
41:13expect
41:13to
41:13happen
41:13is
41:13the
41:14water
41:14weight
41:14on the
41:14hatch
41:15covers
41:15caused
41:15them to
41:16collapse
41:16inward
41:16and she
41:17found her
41:17quickly
41:17and the
41:18air rushed
41:19back
41:19into the stern
41:20and literally
41:21blew that
41:22house right
41:22off the top
41:23it's likely
41:24that some
41:24of these
41:24sailors
41:25were alive
41:25when this
41:26ship hit
41:26the bottom
41:26of the
41:26lake
41:27sinking
41:29by the
41:29stern
41:29in 300
41:30feet
41:30of water
41:31the
41:32Doty
41:32would have
41:33touched
41:33bottom
41:33soon
41:34after her
41:36that the
41:37ship
41:37when she
41:38dug
41:38into
41:38the
41:38lake
41:39bottom
41:39had to
41:40be
41:40nearly
41:41vertical
41:41the
41:42rudder
41:42is
41:43hard
41:43to
41:43port
41:44it's
41:44not
41:44damaged
41:45it's
41:46not
41:46smashed
41:46in
41:47it's
41:47not
41:47splintered
41:48it
41:48seems
41:48to be
41:48attacked
41:49the
41:50position
41:50of the
41:51rudder
41:51provided
41:51another
41:52clue
41:52about
41:52the
41:53final
41:53moments
41:53of
41:54the
41:54LR
41:54Doty
41:54the
41:57fact
41:57that
41:57that
41:58rudder
41:58is
41:58cocked
41:58hard
41:58to
41:59one
41:59side
41:59would
41:59suggest
42:00they
42:00were
42:00probably
42:00trying
42:00to
42:00turn
42:01out
42:01of
42:01the
42:01trough
42:02of
42:02the
42:02waves
42:02and
42:02just
42:02had
42:03the
42:03wheel
42:03hard
42:04to
42:04one
42:04side
42:05turning
42:08a 300
42:08foot
42:09vessel
42:09around
42:09in
42:10heavy
42:10seas
42:10is
42:10a
42:11move
42:11no
42:11captain
42:11would
42:12want
42:12to
42:12make
42:12but
42:13perhaps
42:14captain
42:14Smith
42:15and
42:15the
42:15Doty
42:15could
42:16see
42:16no
42:16other
42:16option
42:17there
42:19wasn't
42:19just
42:19a barge
42:20behind
42:21there
42:21were
42:21lives
42:22back
42:22there
42:22and
42:23I'm
42:23sure
42:23he's
42:24thinking
42:24about
42:24his
42:24own
42:24vessel
42:25but
42:25he's
42:25also
42:25thinking
42:25about
42:26oh
42:26my
42:26God
42:27what
42:31around
42:32that
42:32turn
42:32might
42:32have
42:32done
42:33him
42:33in
42:33alone
42:39now
42:39the
42:40olive
42:40Jeanette
42:40and her
42:41crew
42:41were at
42:41the
42:41mercy
42:42of
42:42the
42:42wind
42:42and
42:43waves
42:43the
42:45only
42:45thing
42:45to
42:45steady
42:46this
42:46vessel
42:46was
42:46to
42:46put
42:47a
42:47sail
42:47on
42:47the
42:47only
42:47sail
42:48he
42:48could
42:48he
42:48tried
42:48to
42:48get
42:49on
42:49was
42:49a
42:49stay
42:50sail
42:50which
42:50would
42:50have
42:50been
42:50a
42:50smaller
42:50sail
42:51on
42:51the
42:51bow
42:51to
42:52turn
42:52so
42:52she
42:52could
42:52steer
42:53so
42:55now
42:56you're
42:56trying
42:56to
42:56surf
42:57and stay
42:57on
42:57waves
42:58would
42:58have
42:58crashed
42:59over
42:59the
42:59stern
42:59waves
43:00and
43:00she
43:00would
43:01have
43:01picked
43:01up
43:01so
43:01much
43:01speed
43:02coming
43:02down
43:02the
43:03back
43:03end
43:03of
43:04waves
43:04that
43:04her
43:04bow
43:04would
43:05have
43:05gone
43:05underwater
43:05the
43:08ologenette's
43:09forward cabin
43:09is ripped
43:10off
43:10and washed
43:11away
43:11it would
43:13be like
43:13having a
43:14normal size
43:14backdoor
43:15swing
43:16pool
43:16being
43:17dumped
43:17on your
43:17head
43:17every
43:1818
43:18seconds
43:19after 48
43:27hours
43:28the storm
43:28finally
43:29blows
43:29itself
43:30out
43:30the ship
43:31has been
43:32pushed
43:32back
43:32south
43:33almost
43:34to her
43:34starting
43:34point
43:35two days
43:37later
43:37Frankie
43:38Waters
43:38tells her
43:39story
43:39to a
43:39reporter
43:40under
43:41the
43:41assumed
43:41name
43:42of
43:42Francis
43:43Brown
43:43thus
43:45delivering
43:46to
43:46Brendan
43:47Baylod
43:47the clue
43:48he
43:48needed
43:49to find
43:49the
43:50L.R.
43:50Doty
43:51we really
43:54did find
43:54this rack
43:55we've solved
43:55the mystery
43:56this is
43:58her