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The last trip of the season and crew members were anxious to get home for Christmas and the winter layover.

The boat literally cracked in two from the stress of a winter gale. This is significant becauseīoth ships were made of the same type of brittle steel that caused them to sink. Was a 603-foot-long ship, built in 1906, just six years before the ill-fated Titanic was launched.

Was a big strapping young man when he worked as a deck hand and wheelman aboard the ore carrier Daniel J. Him in 1991, Hale had been in and out of several marriages, tried nearly religious order known to man, worked at several jobs,Īnd after years of counseling, was only then able to talk about the wreck and his personal recollection of it. His time on the raft, which left him so unnerved that for a long time his life was turned into a shambles. He not only survived the ordeal but had a strange supernatural experience during He has recently come to terms with himself and even

Mental damage, however, was something that took Hale years to repair. Of his feet, he was in remarkably good physical condition and was released from a hospital in Harbor Beach, Michigan within Doctors could not explain how Hale managed to live so long in that environment. Three other men on the raft died within hours of hypothermia, and they were fullyĭressed. He survived even though he spent 38 hours on an open raft, in the midst of a winter snow storm, wearing nothing more than You see Dennis Hale defied all the rules. When I met him 25 years later, he was still reeling from its effect on him. Of Dennis Hale, an Ohio man who was the sole survivor of a shipwreck in Lake Huron.Ģ9, 1966. During my years of reporting for various Michigan newspapers, one of the most memorable stories I came upon was that