Waves of November

As a wave aficionado, I always enjoy watching waves.  Here's a picture of me doing wave watching in the most safest place possible -- behind the picture window of a hotel dinning room:

The picture was taken last May by my colleague Dave Schwab when we were both attending the Great Lakes Research Conference and stayed at the same hotel.  Somehow I forgot to bring my camera on that trip so I was only able to stand there simmering the scenery when Dave took the pictures.  Here is an actual wave scenery that day which was also taken by Dave:

These were not Waves of November, of course!  What I am trying to lead to is a fabulous article about waves with pictures I just came across.  The article, entitled "Waves of November", published in WaWa-News and written by Brenda Grundt, who is also the photographer, is delightful for a wave watcher to read and it is timely for this time of the year especially the last paragraph of the article:

For those who remember big waves on the lake, this evening is the 36th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. "The last communication from the doomed ship came at approximately 7:10 p.m., when the Anderson notified the Fitzgerald of an upbound ship and asked how she was doing. McSorley reported, "We are holding our own." She sank minutes later. No distress signal was received and ten minutes later the Anderson could neither raise the Fitzgerald by radio, nor detect her on radar." - Wikipedia

Which is a nice remembrance of SS Edmund Fitzgerald as we always remembering on this day every year for the tragedy of SS Fitzgerald that happened on November 10, 1975.  After 36 years, however, some history may still not be too certain, but some fact has already been emerging, one of them which everyone tends to agree would be the fact that there was really no distress signal!  Else no one knows what had happened in those dreadful final moments. So it is rather curious to hear that Mr.Gordon Lightfoot would choose to modified his popular song and lyric in 2010 supposedly in responding to some new info. Huh?  Nothing has ever been proven or uncovered, who knows more for sure? Let the 29 souls rest in peace.  Let the history takes care of itself!