Cargo ship sinks.
10-09-2015 | 07:30 AM
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From: 29°50'49.74"N 95° 5'17.55"W.......TEXAS
In an Apache, the cargo is on the inside!
The name of the lost ship is the El Faro. It supposedly sunk in 15000 ft of water (I didn't think it was that deep off the Bahamas). The ship lost propulsion and power just before the storm and was listing at 15 degrees........then it got hit with 50 ft waves and 140 mph winds. The life boats were an older "open style" vs. the newer enclosed ones. One body was recovered in a "abandon ship survival suit" but they were unrecognizable.
Ironically, one of the 33 aboard was on his first trip as a deckhand. 33 lives lost, 2 of which were woman.
The name of the lost ship is the El Faro. It supposedly sunk in 15000 ft of water (I didn't think it was that deep off the Bahamas). The ship lost propulsion and power just before the storm and was listing at 15 degrees........then it got hit with 50 ft waves and 140 mph winds. The life boats were an older "open style" vs. the newer enclosed ones. One body was recovered in a "abandon ship survival suit" but they were unrecognizable.
Ironically, one of the 33 aboard was on his first trip as a deckhand. 33 lives lost, 2 of which were woman.
It is amazing and disturbing that they had such old safety technology on an American vessel. I boat on the Houston ship channel often and cant remember the last time I saw open lifeboats on a commercial ship.
10-09-2015 | 07:43 AM
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not trying to sound gross or anything like that but I wonder what or how the body they found in the suit is unrecognizable.there was some talk that area was shark infested,or did the wreck mess the body up.just wondering.i have been following this story on g-captian.its really sad.god bless those poor souls.
10-09-2015 | 07:59 AM
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Got a link for the "full power aiming at the storm?"
10-09-2015 | 08:01 AM
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not trying to sound gross or anything like that but I wonder what or how the body they found in the suit is unrecognizable.there was some talk that area was shark infested,or did the wreck mess the body up.just wondering.i have been following this story on g-captian.its really sad.god bless those poor souls.
10-09-2015 | 08:10 AM
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Doomed cargo ship reportedly left normal course, sailed into the track of Hurricane Joaquin
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/09...ack-hurricane/
According to this story the ship was still traveling at full power on oct 1, and was 50 miles from the storm.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/09...ack-hurricane/
According to this story the ship was still traveling at full power on oct 1, and was 50 miles from the storm.
10-09-2015 | 08:15 AM
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Doomed cargo ship reportedly left normal course, sailed into the track of Hurricane Joaquin
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/09...ack-hurricane/
According to this story the ship was still traveling at full power on oct 1, and was 50 miles from the storm.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/09...ack-hurricane/
According to this story the ship was still traveling at full power on oct 1, and was 50 miles from the storm.
Thursday's report by Reuters used tracking data to establish the U.S.-flagged vessel's path in its final hours. The data uses a ship's satellite transmissions to track its location and speed. The ship was last heard from early on the morning of Oct. 1 after its captain, Michael Davidson, reported that he had lost engine propulsion, was taking on water, and was listing. No reason was given for the loss of power.
10-09-2015 | 08:23 AM
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2nd paragraph:
Thursday's report by Reuters used tracking data to establish the U.S.-flagged vessel's path in its final hours. The data uses a ship's satellite transmissions to track its location and speed. The ship was last heard from early on the morning of Oct. 1 after its captain, Michael Davidson, reported that he had lost engine propulsion, was taking on water, and was listing. No reason was given for the loss of power.
Thursday's report by Reuters used tracking data to establish the U.S.-flagged vessel's path in its final hours. The data uses a ship's satellite transmissions to track its location and speed. The ship was last heard from early on the morning of Oct. 1 after its captain, Michael Davidson, reported that he had lost engine propulsion, was taking on water, and was listing. No reason was given for the loss of power.
"I don't know what he was thinking. I can’t even speculate," Klaus Luhta of the International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots told Reuters. "He headed right into the track."
