The board will examine whether Captain Michael Davidson sailed the ship too close to the storm.
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Asked Wednesday whether submersibles would be used, Dinh-Zarr didn’t directly answer.
“It’s been six long days of hoping and praying”, she said to a television reporter on a clip posted on her Facebook page. “So, we leave no stone unturned in our investigation and our analysis”.
Its owners, Tote Maritime, say the ship lost power after its engines broke down.
“I think what is regrettable on this is the fact that the vessel did become disabled in the path of the storm, and that is what (ultimately) led to the tragedy”.
“When we describe it as a family business, we don’t just mean our family, we mean everybody who works there”, he said. The ship was considered rugged and had been retrofitted as recently as 2006 but at 40 years old had been at sea double a standard service life.
The U.S. Navy will be using its resources in finding the ship.
Twenty-eight of the 33 crew members were Americans, and the other five were from Poland.
“If the second lifeboat was out there, we’re confident we would have found it with the type of assets we were using to search”, Fedor said.
The best hope for understanding what happened would be to retrieve a data recorder created to preserve information about the final 12 hours of the ship’s movement and communication, much like an airplane’s black box recorder. It did not have a history of engine problems. The organization sets safety rules for ships.
Others sorrowfully said the decision was the right one.
“Time and money are an important thing” in the shipping industry, Nicoll said.
A massive Coast Guard search is on for survivors.
The 790-foot El Faro was last heard from October 1 when the crew reported it had lost propulsion and was listing 15 degrees. Its last known location was off Crooked Island in the southern Bahamas. It said it was about 35 nautical miles northeast of the Bahamas.
Containers that were positioned to balance weight throughout the ship could shift enough, Pazos said, to make the vessel tilt, disrupting the ship’s generators and interrupting power. But, it said the situation was “manageable”.
On Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard found a body in a survival suit, in the water, within a 225-square-mile debris field consisting of life jackets, life rings, cargo containers and an oil sheen. The NTSB sent a team to Jacksonville on Tuesday to begin the agency’s inquiry.
The company says they will continue their full support into NTSB’s investigation. The company has defended the decision as a reasoned judgment call based on the experience and calculations of a seasoned captain.
Tote said Captain Davidson communicated regularly with company officials before the storm worsened.
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The names of four Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) graduates, who according to previous reports were believed to be on the ship when it encountered Hurricane Joaquin, were on a list of crew members released by the Coast Guard Wednesday.
