Edmund Fitzgerald Coast Guard Transmissions - LISTEN FROM THE BRIDGE (Transcribed with ambience)

Published at : 17 Dec 2025

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This is the complete publicly-released recording of the radio communications between searchers in the immediate aftermath of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's been shared before, but we've set it to an accurate digital model of the bridge of the Arthur M. Anderson, simulated realistic storm conditions, and added more natural pauses between each transmission in the recording.

On top of that, we created and overlaid what we feel are the most complete and accurate transcripts of the recordings (no doubt there are more complete ones that were never published by the US Coast Guard).

Listen to this and imagine yourself back on the bridge of a freighter at Whitefish Point on the evening of November 10th, 1975...

Watch our feature documentary on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald here: https://youtu.be/_2f0tZBSByI
Watch the abridged version of that documentary here: https://youtu.be/dkaeClutunM

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - Captain Cooper speaks with Group Soo
3:43 - Anderson's Mate speaks with Group Soo
9:30 - Cooper and Group Soo discuss the three Salties
14:43 - Arthur M. Anderson is asked to search for the Fitzgerald
22:11 - US Coast Guard issues a general call to all ships
26:43 - Arthur M. Anderson enters the storm
32:14 - Other ships cannot help
40:59 - US Navy Aircraft joins the search

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