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A major maritime disaster is underway in the Atlantic and it is subject to a media blackout?
10/04/2015 | cll

Posted on 10/04/2015 6:33:03 AM PDT by cll

An 800 ft. cargo vessel sailing from Jacksonville to San Juan in the vicinity of a major hurricane with 33 crew on board loses power, starts listing, sends a distress signal and goes missing now for four days. Drudge has a link to the story just as a side of other hurricane stories. The story goes largely ignored by the mainstream media. Even Free Republic has taken it down from Breaking and Front Page news.

That's 33 souls, 28 of which are Americans, possibly lost at sea or struggling to survive. A major U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue effort is underway right now, and the incident is barely registering.

Why the blackout? Can the Trump and Putin antics really overshadow a major real-life survival or disaster news item, as it is happening?

I am not one for conspiracy theories, but isn't it the lack of real, factual information which fuels "alternate news" sources?

Or do people, including FR, do no just care and if it's not about politicians and "celebrities", it does not exist?

33 souls missing at sea. A drunk falling of a cruise ship gets more press than this!

Original thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3343833/posts

Updates: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3344385/posts

Shipping company's official incident site: http://elfaroincident.com/


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Free Republic Policy/Q&A; Weather
KEYWORDS: bermudatriangle; cargoship; containership; elfaro; florida; hurricane; jacksonville; joaquin; maritime; puertorico; shipping; uscg
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To: Ray76

I have lived all my life, 75 years, on the Texas Gulf coast. I have watched countless hurricanes and they very often do not do what was forecast. That is where I got my 20 20 hindsight.

My grandfather survived the 1900 GALVESTON hurricane. Those people had very little warning about what was coming at them, that is not the case today.


121 posted on 10/04/2015 5:03:35 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: rabidralph
That was the HMS Bounty.

It sank during Hurricane Sandy. Only two crew were not rescued. One was recovered, unresponsive, and later pronounced dead. The other, the captain, was not recovered.

122 posted on 10/04/2015 5:25:15 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: cll
Witness how they flamed and then buried the ebola crisis, for example.

After the CDC screwed up with protocols for handling patients, the new Ebola Czar came in and the MSM dropped the story.

The outbreak still hasn't ended completely, but it went off the radar in the US media.

123 posted on 10/04/2015 5:32:25 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks.


124 posted on 10/04/2015 6:16:30 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: cll

Just as 60,000 foot high thunderstorms are known as airplane disassembly factories, I suppose a CAT 4 hurricane would qualify for an ocean ship disassembly factory. Smart pilots that like living don’t fly into thunderstorms. I don’t know about ship captains.


125 posted on 10/04/2015 6:45:49 PM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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On Wednesday morning it was a tropical storm. On Thursday afternoon it was a CAT4 hurricane.

In 36 hours it rapidly intensified from a storm to a Cat4 hurricane.


126 posted on 10/04/2015 7:52:05 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: Taxman

Ping for later read


127 posted on 10/04/2015 10:04:39 PM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: cll

Thanks...


128 posted on 10/05/2015 6:40:16 AM PDT by halo66
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To: Travis McGee; cll; All

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/ElFaro?src=hash

Per multiple twitter posts, ElFaro sank. News conf in 5 minutes. One heavily damaged lifeboat found, one body found.


129 posted on 10/05/2015 6:54:25 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: SE Mom

Am on phone, hard to start thread on this, maybe someone would?


130 posted on 10/05/2015 6:55:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: SE Mom

Heard the news a little while ago...how sad! Prayers up for all of those personally affected.


131 posted on 10/05/2015 7:00:07 AM PDT by halo66
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To: SE Mom

Oh, God.


132 posted on 10/05/2015 7:12:06 AM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: SE Mom

I have no access to real time media, did they have the presser yet?


133 posted on 10/05/2015 7:13:55 AM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: two23

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/ElFaro?src=hash

Am on my phone...not watching either. Can you access Twitter?


134 posted on 10/05/2015 7:17:23 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: SE Mom

No Twitter, thanks. Local radio said presser coming up, but if it did, they didn’t break in for it.
I was hoping for good news for the families.


135 posted on 10/05/2015 7:23:05 AM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: SE Mom

Body was found in a survival suit.


136 posted on 10/05/2015 7:29:15 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Abandoning ship in a Cat4 hurricane is near hopeless.
But the CG continues to search. They are looking for survivors, not the ship.


137 posted on 10/05/2015 7:37:34 AM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: Travis McGee

Years ago I was on the bridge of the Vinson. Noticed the roll indicator(or what ever the marine term is) I said to the very young helmsman: “Have you ever had that in the oh $hit range?” He replied “That’s classified, sir?” A Master Chief standing close by smiled and said: “That’s right! We have taken blue water over the bow on more than one occasion. That’s declassified!”

A guy that works for me was on the Tarawa when a wave cracked the steel on the perimeter of the island.


138 posted on 10/05/2015 7:38:34 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: Travis McGee

Travis those look like open lifeboats as opposed to the closed survival boats we are used to.

....Which is probably your point.

Would they require an operator to lower them, a la the Titanic?

I thought survival boats just required you to hit a big red button.


139 posted on 10/05/2015 9:51:23 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Travis McGee

Of the two, I’d rather be on the Maersk Alabama if the weather turned to $#!+ ...


140 posted on 10/05/2015 9:54:40 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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