The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Nov. 10, '75
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Bloody love water, especially the keel
It would have been designed for even distribution of weight, not point support in the center and the ends.
When the ship is nosediving over a swell of water the support shifted away from the front to the center and rear, so there was unnatural strain on the mid section with upward pressure at the center.
Then the ship stops diving and immediately the pressure is upward at the front, while the rear is resisting so there is insufficient support in the center therefore there is downward pressure at the center.
Repeat this often enough and the center will fracture resulting in the ship splitting in two.
I haven't even mentioned the load shift which may have contributed to the problem, especially if it was anything less than full and packed tight.
Picture holding an iron bar by the ends in your hands and you are bending the bar so that the center is going up and down repeatedly. It will eventually fracture. You can see from the wreckage that the ship is in two equal halves.