"We're holding our own"  famous quote from Captain Ernest McSorley, Edmund Fitzgerald, Nov. 10, 1975

If you have RealPlayer, here's the USCG SAR (US Coast Guard, Search and Rescue) recording of a portion of the actual radio transmissions during the search.
Right click on the painting below, select "Save Link As" and after it loads, use RealPlayer to play it.

Click the picture  USCG Search ( RealPlayer 97K)

If you don't have RealPlayer, you can download and listen to the same file (but it will take a little longer as this wave is 1 minute 39 seconds and 1.5MB.  If you are still on a dial-up line, Right click, select "Save Link As"  and go get a coffee. Broadband,  either click on it and play in your browser or save it.

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