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/
There are after all only 24 hours in a news cycle...
Basic fact is a ship lost at sea in a Cat 4 hurricane compared to 9 innocent lives gunned down in cold blood isn't much of a contest in news worthiness...
Plus of course, ship lost at sea doesn't fit every well into the MSM narrative of trying to link the POS whack job to the Tea Party / GOP / Republican blame game...
Their resources were spent on trying to make that link instead of "reporting all the news"
Gezz, the story was all over Fox, CNN ets last night and this morning. Cable is often late by days on some stories.
They can’t figure out how to use it against Trump, but don’t think they’re not looking.
The latest update on Bing search...50 minutes ago
The sea is a very unforgiving mistress. Those who go out to meet her anger know what price is to be paid for poorly maintained and/or non redundant equipment.
I have been following the story, though there is not much to report I see no shortage of reporting on it. Do a search for news of cargo ship and you will find lots of reports all saying the same thing.
I don’t know if there was a deliberate blackout of the news, “BUT” if there is; as I don my tin foil hat, what was on that ship they don’t want anyone to know about?
Hat off...
I don’t have cable or dish, but I have been trying to follow this story online. Not only is a ship and its crew possibly lost; but there is also risk to our Coast Guard S&R teams.
I think it is news-worthy and our thoughts and prayers are with the crew and their family members. (And the CG personnel who are out there trying to find them.)
This must be awful for the family members, and more so because of it being a bad judgment call by the shipping co.
Big time worse.
I meant that my breaking news post be substituted with the original thread. But I can understand the result.
Who ever gave those orders is where the law suites need to land.
Another thing to consider is that if those containers broke loose they are a real danger to other ships.
Got that part: http://www.amazon.com/The-Shipping-Man-Matthew-McCleery/dp/0983716307
Are there designated shipping lanes on the JAX to Puerto Rico run?
Probably lying next to the USS CYCLOPS.
The news items that get intensive coverage from the media often strike me as odd. In 1997, for instance, the networks devoted considerable attention to a story about a baby who died at the hands of a babysitter—That may have been the biggest story of the year.
Last year, as I was flying home from San Antonio, Texas, I had to change planes in El Paso. While waiting for my plane, I bought a local paper that included a story about a local case that was almost identical—a baby dying at the hands if a babysitter. However, it’s a safe bet that the story never made it out of the Rio Grande valley.
Nowhere on that giant ship is a GPS locator?
Given the fact that Obama ruins everything he touches, could anything be due to incompetence at NOAA, USCG or any other gov agencies?
Coast Guard Video
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/426494/pilot-c-130-speaks-about-el-faro-search#.VhE4fuyQ18F
It is called ratings. Most Americans will have flown in their lifetimes. Most don’t travel on container ships, and don’t know anyone who does.
Thanks. Wave height 40 ft? *yikes* doesn’t sound good.
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