akaboatman

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I thought I would put this here. The boaters on this sight use to care about all boaters. Well here you go?

TENSION

Well, this "sight" has been lacking....

And, RIP to all the crew on that ship!

iliveonanisland

Being 780ft long that would classify it as an offshoreonly boat correct

akaboatman

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Wow your so right. God Bless these people. Hope you can come home.

tommymonza

RIP

But there needs to be a Criminal investigation into who ordered that 40 year old derelict directly into a Hurricane.

iliveonanisland

I didnt get the whole story.... was the ship sent directly into the path of a cat 4 hurricane? Or was it so slow of a ship it just got caught by the storm or was it a cat one the got a lot stronger by the time it got to the ship?

you know i think a 780 ft ship could have easily gone through that storm.... had it not lost power!

After it lost power i think for some reason it was taking on water. I heard the crew was pumping it out and staying ahead of the water coming in...but i guess something happened to where the water overwhelmed the pumps

f_inscreenname

I think they may be already home. God bless the family's.

iliveonanisland

Think about this, say and apache 41 runs in 6ft seas... no problem right. thats 41ft of boat divided by 6 ft of waves equals 6.8... now you take a 780ft boat run it into 50 ft waves just not as fast as the apache, so thats 780 by 50 equals 15. Something so the 780 ft has a much better ship length to wave ratio. So had it not been for losing power, it should have been ok, it would have been a miserable ride. But a ship that slow cant very welĺ out run a storm i wouldnt think...

But then again an apache wouldnt be nearly as top heavy, and going slow probably would allow the big ship to list a lot more bashing through those monster wasve...

phragle

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The apache doesnt have a deck stacked tall with shipping containers

Jupiter Sunsation

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.