When you lose power in a hurricane, the end can come very suddenly. The captain should order all personnel non-essential to the recovering power effort to man the lifeboats and prepare to abandon ship.
I’ve been keeping up with this story and just saw this update.
Even if they’d stopped the flooding, they were at a 15 degree list and propellers out..no way to keep up with the swells. It doesn’t sound good for this ship.
Godspeed men of the sea..
The ship was without propulsion and listing in very bad seas. Not too hard to figure out what happened.
Man, I can’t even imagine trying to ride out a storm with NO power. I’m thinking it capsized or rode to high and broke apart.... Edmund Fitzgerald...
Oh-oh....is this in the Bermuda triangle???
hope floats eternal
Official updates from the shipping company: http://elfaroincident.com/
The company has flown family members of the crew to Florida.
The boyfriend of one of my students was on the ship-she was
flown down to Florida sometime withing the past day or so.
Latest update. Additional items found at sea: http://www.wmtw.com/news/reports-4-mainers-on-board-cargo-ship-lost-at-sea/35639464
I had a summer job once in my high school years, and one time we got caught in a real bad storm in the Atlantic, about 2 days out from Gibraltar. The waves crashing over the bow smashed open a hatch to a storage hold where we stored all our paint and it filled with water. There was paint everywhere... what a huge mess.... took us weeks to clean that up.