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TIL I learned that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald didn't have a fathometer. Instead, the crew used a hand line to take depth soundings. #todayilearned
TIL I learned that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald didn't have a fathometer. Instead, the crew used a hand line to take depth soundings. #todayilearned
Neither did she have any way to measure the amount of water in her cargo hold.