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!
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Shipping company's official incident site: http://elfaroincident.com/
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.
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.
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.
Thanks.
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.
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.
Ping for later read
Thanks...
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.
Am on phone, hard to start thread on this, maybe someone would?
Heard the news a little while ago...how sad! Prayers up for all of those personally affected.
Oh, God.
I have no access to real time media, did they have the presser yet?
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/ElFaro?src=hash
Am on my phone...not watching either. Can you access Twitter?
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.
Body was found in a survival suit.
Abandoning ship in a Cat4 hurricane is near hopeless.
But the CG continues to search. They are looking for survivors, not the ship.
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.
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.
Of the two, I’d rather be on the Maersk Alabama if the weather turned to $#!+ ...
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