(If you’re unaware of this, Superior is so cold and the depths so anoxic that bodies do not decompose. Everyone who’s gone down in it is still there, barring heroic recovery efforts. Many of them may have saponified and become “soap mummies,” which can effectively preserve them forever.

Also I got to explain that Lake Superior really doesn’t give up her dead and that divers found the Edmund Fitzgerald some years ago, bodies intact—one was found outside the wreck—and is now an officially protected grave.

I mean c'mon 🥹 🪶