The Sinking Of The S.S Marine Electric

On Febuary 12,1983 the SS Marine Electric was going through a storm 30 miles off the virginia coast when suddenly....She had capsized and sank while sending an SOS to the coast guard later they arrived on scene to find 39 people dead and 3 fighting for their lives in the sub-zero tempatures of the atlantic.Since then that was one of the most memorial shipwrecks of the east coast and it changed the coast guard forever and helped enfore more saftey standards on ships.