El Faro’s Final Communications Played at Hearing – LISTEN

gCaptain ^ | February 21, 2016

[artichokegrower]

The captain of the doomed El Faro warned that the “clock was ticking” as his cargo ship took on water in an Atlantic hurricane that would eventually sink the vessel, a U.S. Coast Guard panel heard on Saturday.

Captain Michael Davidson pleaded for help as his ship, operated by Tote Services, sailed into the path of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas, according to a recording of his final calls played at the hearing.

[artichokegrower]

Listening to the audios is sounds like the captain failed to communicate the emergency, the onshore operator was not qualified to take the communication, the onshore company representative downplayed the emergency without having sufficient information and the Coast Guard failed to provide an emergency response also do to insufficient information.

[DoughtyOne]