October 05, 2015
Contact: 7th Coast Guard District
Email: D07-SMB-PAMIAMI@uscg.mil
Office: (305) 415-6683
UPDATE 7: Coast Guard searching for missing container ship caught in Hurricane Joaquin
MIAMI – Coast Guard search and rescue crews continue searching for possible survivors from the cargo ship El Faro Monday night, covering a total search area of more than 160,574 square nautical miles.
While searching in the vicinity of the ship's last known position 35 nautical miles northeast of Crooked Islands, Bahamas, the Coast Guard located a deceased person in a survival suit in the water.
A heavily damaged life boat with markings consistent with those on board the El Faro was also located Sunday. Additional items located by Coast Guard aircrews within a 225 square nautical mile search area include a partially submerged life raft, life jackets, life rings, cargo containers and an oil sheen Sunday.
Coast Guard assets involved in Monday’s search include: ◾Two Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida ◾Two Navy P-8 fixed wing airplanes ◾One Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida ◾Coast Guard Cutter Northland, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Portsmouth, Virginia ◾Coast Guard Cutter Resolute, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida ◾Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton, a 154-foot fast response cutter homeported in Key West, Florida. ◾Three commercial tugboats
Sea and weather conditions during Monday's search include one-foot seas and 15 knots winds with unrestricted visibility.
All three Coast Guard cutters will stay on scene and search through the night.
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http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2607894/
I’d like to know whose decision it was to send that ship out in the face of forecasts. It couldn’t have waited another day?
Another source with video:
http://gcaptain.com/el-faro-likely-sank-in-hurricane-joaquin/#.VhLySPlViko
The cruel sea remains so. Even OHSA, the DOL, the DHS, and the EPA cannot tame the angry sea in defense of unwary mariners.
Psalm 107
Let us Pray to the Lord
Some went down to the sea in ships,
doing business on the great waters;
they saw the deeds of the Lord,
his wondrous works in the deep.
For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.
They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
their courage melted away in their evil plight;
they reeled and staggered like drunken men
and were at their wits’ end.b
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
He made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
Then they were glad that the watersc were quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
The ship was in the Atlantic Ocean and not in the Caribbean Sea. -Tom
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