Here in Michigan the famous ship's sinking is always a news story each year. They ring the bell in Detroit at the Mariners Church and there is endless discussion of it in the media. I am certain if it were not for Gordon Lightfoot's famous song if anyone elsewhere would be familiar with it. Yet we still do not know why it sank.

The cast of interviewees is interesting:

1. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigation reports

2. Experienced captains of Great Lakes ships, e.g. one has 45 years a Great Lakes mariner, 18 as a captain.

3. "diver, documentary filmmaker, Great Lakes shipwreck historian and author of the 2022 book "Tattletale Sounds: The Edmund Fitzgerald investigations."

Imagine we were talking about IT systems - e.g., Google Cloud - and we had an outside expert panel that did a detailed investigation; long-time Google Cloud senior engineers; and a documentary filmmaker and author, who examined the (malfunctioned systems).

Who would you listen to? #3 gets most of the space in the article. I'd listen to #2 especially and certainly #1.