Project Wreck Exploration: SS Edmund Fitzgerald

What is Project Wreck Exploration?
PWE is one of my "small" side projects I made when I felt burned out after building my bigger, primary projects. It aims to recreate some of history's most famous shipwrecks, packed with a nice decorative research vessel the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, and a Mir deep sea submersible for you to control.
The Wrecks are accurately recreated and are 1:1 size, some of them are even in a realistic depth (only the ones that lie in a depth of less than 300 meters)

In memory of the 29 souls who were lost aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald on the 10th of November, 1975. May they all rest in peace, and may never such event happen again.

WARNING!

To use this build, you have to create a custom water spawn, far from any of the vanilla islands:
This build has a massive 550 m x 650 m size base platform which would cause it to explode if you tried to spawn at the default water spawn.

History

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 222 meters long ore freighter operating on the Great Lakes. She was built in 1957-58 and was operated by the Columbia Transportation Division. In November of 1975, while en route to Zug Island near Detroit, Michigan, she encountered a massive storm that ended up sinking her, taking the lives of all 29 crew members on board. The exact cause of her sinking is debated to this day. The tragedy of Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most well known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, partially because of Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Today the vessel lies in two pieces at a depth of about 160 meters.

Now about my build

Base Platform Size: 550 m x 650 m

Actual Part Count: 688

Depth: 160 meters

This builds features an accurate, 1:1 replica of the Edmund Fitzgerald's wreck and the debris field around it. It also features the replica of the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, a Russian research vessel that was used for multiple deep sea wreck explorations such as the explration of the Titanic and the Bismarck (yes, I know theoretically she probably shouldn't be sailing on the Great Lakes but I was lazy to build a whole new research ship). The third vehicle of the build is a Mir submersible. Two of these submerisbles exist, the Mir-1 and Mir-2, both of them operate from the Keldysh in real life.
You can control the Mir sub to move around while the rest of the build is all stationary.
The wreck is located roughly below the Keldysh and almost next to the starting point of the submersible.

Controls:

• Pitch - Sub ascend-descend
• Roll - Sub yaw
• Throttle - Sub forward propulsion
• Thorttle + AG6 - Sub reverse propulsion (reverts the propulsion of Throttle. If you had 70% propulsion before activating AG6, after activating it, the propeller will produce -70% propulsion)
• AG7 - Lights

Gallery:

As always, I hope you like this build!