06 October 2015

Joaquin got one after all


Slate has an article by Ben Mathis-Lilley about a missing ship:
Coast Guard officials say that a eight-hundred-foot container ship named El Faro likely sank last Thursday near the Bahamas amid the chaos of Hurricane Joaquin; a search continues for the thirty American and five Polish crew members who were aboard. One body has been recovered from the area but not yet identified. From CNN:
The Coast Guard is no longer searching for the missing cargo ship El Faro , but focusing on any signs of survivors. Searchers have found life rafts and survival suits, including one survival suit with human remains, Coast Guard Captain Mark Fedor said. The body inside the survival suit was unidentifiable, he said.
El Faro was based in Jacksonville, Florida, and was traveling to San Jose, Puerto Rico, when it was lost. Its last known position was thirty nautical miles northeast of the Bahamas. Per The Associated Press, El Faro's crew “reported that the ship had lost power, had taken on water and was listing fifteen degrees, but that the situation was ‘manageable’ ” in its last communication.
Rico says guess it wasn't manageable after all...

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