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/
Not only does somebody have to control the descent in the davits, the system can only work in calm water with negligible rolling. In a hurricane, with the ship wallowing 45* to each side, those antique lifeboats are big fat zeroes. They cannot be used, period.
See 141.
Thanks for the insight.
As an aside: in my city is a survival boat graveyard. All manner and type of survival boat is in that heap, piled high and deep. It is a fascinating trip through time and technology. Round ones, long ones, etc.
I thought they were cool and wondered if they’d let me have one for cheap, until I got close enough to smell them.
What are they made of? Sometimes you can just haul them away, and strip them down to the bare metal. Can’t get cheaper than that.
They appear to be constructed of fiberglass.
Not counting ghe windows and hardware and all that.
“The” windows....
Nothing wrong with that. Easy to rehab or convert to other uses, if “the price is right”
(Drag it out of here, it’s yours.)
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