The United States Coast Guards Not So Finest Moment In Aftermath Of Fitzgerald’s Disappearance. - a podcast by Kirk Monroe

Learn about how the Coast Guard wasn’t equipped with proper search and rescue vessels in locating large freighter ships. Coast Guard had relied on smaller vessels given its primary purpose was locating missing persons from smaller boats. Learn how Coast Guard asked Captain Bernie Cooper Of Arthur M. Anderson to send his ore freighter back out into the waters of Lake Superior to search for Fitzgerald. Also learn how Captain Cooper and his crew aboard the Anderson would discover remains of the wreckage floating on the surface of Lake Superior.

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