[Eric in the Ozarks]

Had I been the captain, I’d have waited one day to see what this monster really was.

[Dan Cooper]

It's approximately 1100nm from Jax to PR, the El Faro can make 25kts so it's an approximately 48hr trip. I've heard that that the El Faro left at midnight on Tuesday. By that time the 11pm forecast on Tuesday showed by Wednesday 8pm the center of the storm was forecast to be right in their track right when they would be there.

They could have been going slower to try to let the storm pass or they might have pushing it to try to slip past. I'm having a hard time finding out exactly when they reported their last position off Crooked Key. Then we might be able to tell what speed they were making and what the strategy was. It's hard to understand why they wouldn't have taken steps to avoid the storm assuming they had the latest weather.