[Cowgirl of Justice]

I was awake in the middle of the night, mourning the terror those poor people went through. I can’t even begin to imagine their terror.

[ErnBatavia]

There was a posting here the other day, supposedly quoting someone from another forum, with familiarity....claiming that this ship was a bucket of bolts and constantly having mechanical and maintenance problems.

I suppose once the attorneys get involved, we'll learn more...

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[grania]

I'd assume the thinking for cargo ships might be the same as for cruise ships. It often seems that it's nothing can go wrong until it does go wrong.

In 2008, I took a July cruise out of NYC. There was a hurricane hugging the SE US coast. The ship with its incredible navigation and weather information stayed east of it. Joaquim had that weird unpredictable path. I could see how a ship with a combination of mechanical difficulties and an unpredictable storm was at some point going to get caught up in a storm.

[barmag25]

I think this ship still had open top life boats. These should of been changed decades ago

[Yo-Yo]

but was prevented from doing so by a mechanical failure that left the boat adrift in the path of the power storm.

I was in the Air Force, not the Navy, but as a day sailor, I'm pretty sure that the term 'boat' would not apply to the El Faro.

[Rebelbase]

There was nothing mechanical about the decision to sail into a cat-3 hurricane.

[deport]

I read yesterday that one body had been found.

snip
Capt. Mark Fedor said one large debris field was spotted near the last known location of the
790-foot container ship El Faro near the Bahamas. The body, which Fedor said was "unidentifiable,"
was discovered in a survival suit, but no other human remains or survivors were immediately located.

"We are still looking for survivors or any signs of life," Fedor said at a news conference
near Miami. "We're not looking for the vessel any longer."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/el-faro-cargo-ship-sank-body-recovered-coast-guard-article-1.2385522

[minnesota_bound]

I saw a 1950’s movie like this where the owner of a ship wanted to get the insurance money. He failed to tell the captain or the crew about it.

[expat2]

What were they doing sailing an old ship into a known hurricane?