Posted on 10/08/2015 8:41:09 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Last night, the final rescue crews on the El Faro mission called in, “We are returning to base – negative results,” and left the search area. The hearts of family and friends finished a breaking that began a week ago, and all they are left with now are questions. As unspeakably tragic as the last week has been, I know that more heartbreak is coming.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
gcaptain does a pretty good job.
There are actually many ships lost at sea each month but usually with survivors.
I, personally, think it was an avoidable tragedy, one which occurred simply because of the demands placed on the captain of the ship to get the goods delivered.
May God rest their souls.
Well-written piece...further justifies the position of my father-in-law, who refused to learn to swim, despite sailing all over the world during WWII as a member of the Norwegian Merchant Marine, and who then spent another 30 years fishing in Alaska.
He always said, “The ones who could swim suffered longer. I’d rather go quickly!”
Prayers for the families of those lost of the Faro...no easy answers, I am afraid.
Good article. I believe fair, but I do believe, and will always believe due personal experience working with vessel operators, Captains, First Officers, Engineers, etc. for many years this would not have happened unless somebody put pressure on the Captain to cut costs, and get out to sea.
The Captain’s plan doesn’t matter. The plan I believe was a response to intimidation to get to sea. I’ve personally seen it before. I quit working for a company because of their abuse of power over the lives of the Officer’s, and thus the crews of their ships, as well their shoreside vessel operations personnel. I went on to other related industry off dock.
That was many years ago. I’m retired now, and don’t have to worry about retribution for speaking out in an industry that does that sort of thing.
BTTT
Agreed.
For those of us with constant love of learning new things, FR is a great place to hang out.
May God rest their souls.
Any idea how to coax a hurricane to the southern Mediterranean?
one must not forget...... it’s in the Bermuda Triangle
Being from Michigan and growing up near the Great Lakes, I’m somewhat familiar with the big carriers.
I now live in Maryland and my office is one street over from Baltimore Harbor.
I have a painting of the Edmund Fitzgerald on my living room wall. The artist, James Clary rendered it a minute or so before it “broke deep and took water.”
El Faro was often moored in Baltimore. It was a somewhat unusual looking vessel. I did some research on El Faro a couple years ago to find out what kind of ship it was.
As soon as I heard it was missing, I knew if was the same ship.
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