CMS featured on the History Channel

The Marine Institute's Centre for Marine Simulation (CMS) was featured on the History Channel's newest series

The Marine Institute's Centre for Marine Simulation (CMS) was featured on Dive Detectives, a new series for History Television. In its first ever episode, the father-and-son diving team of Mike and Warren Fletcher focused on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and what really caused the Great Lakes Freighter to sink during a winter storm.

They called upon the research team at Marine Institute's Centre for Marine Simulation to use their ship bridge simulator to recreate the vessel and simulate her last fateful voyage. "It was the production company's aim to discover whether weather conditions, specifically, a rogue wave was the cause of the disaster that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald," said Captain Christopher Hearn, director, CMS. "CMS was able to place the crew and Dive Detective hosts on board the virtual vessel and produce environmental conditions such as wind, rain, waves, etc. that may have impacted the vessel."

The show will air Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm on the History Channel.