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03-21-2003, 12:08 PM

I agree with Somewhere...
I suppose we won't definitively know short of
going to the source. I was hoping someone in Gord's inner circle might be kind enough
to offer their insight.

The more I discover the amount of detail and research that went into his other shipwreck sagas, the more I'm inclined to believe "Marie Christine" is likely to have some sort of inspirational source (rather than simply made of whole cloth).

One correction: my brain cells firing a little better this morning remind me that
the documentary I mentioned earlier on the Yarmouth Castle was actually a Discovery Channel production, not PBS. It was a one-hour installment of a 3-part series "Shipwrecks".

03-21-2003, 12:08 PM	#22
psa Guest Posts: n/a	I agree with Somewhere... I suppose we won't definitively know short of going to the source. I was hoping someone in Gord's inner circle might be kind enough to offer their insight. The more I discover the amount of detail and research that went into his other shipwreck sagas, the more I'm inclined to believe "Marie Christine" is likely to have some sort of inspirational source (rather than simply made of whole cloth). One correction: my brain cells firing a little better this morning remind me that the documentary I mentioned earlier on the Yarmouth Castle was actually a Discovery Channel production, not PBS. It was a one-hour installment of a 3-part series "Shipwrecks".