The cause of the wreck of the ship Edmund Fitzgeraid in a severe storm on lake Superior is still unknown , when the sunken wreckage of the vessel was found , searchers discovered the hull in two pieces lying close together , The storm' s violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart
Ttherefore, the breakup of the hull can be ruled out as the cause of the sinking
Pieces of the hull would have sunk more quickly than the intact hull would have