The Second Deadliest of Great Lakes is the Shallowest. How? | Fall Asleep To

Описание: 🌊 The Second-Deadliest Great Lake is The Shallowest. How?

Lake Erie is only 62 feet deep on average—shallow enough to stand in many places. Yet it holds an estimated 2,000 shipwrecks, making it one of the deadliest of the Great Lakes. But that ranking might be wrong.
This is the story of ships that vanished in calm weather. Bodies found frozen with slash marks. A ferry that disappeared with 38 crew and was never found for 116 years. Invisible pressure corridors that sink four ships in one day. And a lake that doesn't scatter what it wants to keep.
Why the Marquette & Bessemer vanished with 9 frozen bodies holding knives?
How short-period waves killed more ships than ocean storms?
The "seiche" phenomenon that stopped Niagara Falls and drowned 78 people in 1844
Why Black Friday 1916 sank 4 ships while shore observers saw "normal weather"?
The burial system: how Erie's silt hides wrecks for centuries
Why "second-deadliest" is a lie told by incomplete data?
Modern discoveries still happening—and what might surface next

This isn't just history. Lake Erie is still active, still dangerous, still hiding secrets. And every few years, it gives one back.

🕐 TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - 00:01:05 - INTRO
00:01:05 - 00:07:11 - THREE SHIPS, ONE PATTERN
00:07:11 - 00:15:57 - THE SHALLOW WATER TRAP
00:15:57 - 00:23:06 - THE INVESTIGATION
00:23:06 - 00:35:38 - THE BREATHING LAKE
00:35:38 - 00:50:39 - THE INVISIBLE CORRIDOR
00:50:39 - 01:00:39 - THE BURIAL SYSTEM
01:00:39 - 01:14:54 - WHAT THE DEAD TEACH
01:14:54 - 01:23:27 - THE RANKING LIE
01:23:27 - 01:32:22 - THE PRESENT TENSE
01:32:22 - 01:34:03 - OUTRO

🔍 KEY MYSTERIES EXPLORED
✓ Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 (1909) - 38 crew vanished, ship never found
✓ Thomas Hume (1891) - Disappeared in good weather, found 115 years later
✓ Lake Serpent (1829) - First commercial vessel, found after 183 years
✓ G.P. Griffith (1850) - Fire victims, soot patterns reveal slow sinking
✓ Dundee (1900) - Anchor found 40 miles from wreck site
✓ Black Friday 1916 - Four ships, 49 dead, invisible death corridors
✓ Great Seiche of 1844 - Stopped Niagara Falls, killed 78

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