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Obnoxious nitpick: everyone on El Faro died. Crew had plenty of warning they were sailing into a hurricane, but the captain did it anyway. For me the main takea
by sbierwagen 6y ago
Obnoxious nitpick: everyone on El Faro died. Crew had plenty of warning they were sailing into a hurricane, but the captain did it anyway. For me the main takeaway from that sinking was "don't be on a cargo ship that sails directly into a hurricane".
NTSB report: https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/58000-58499/58116/598645.pdf https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/58000-58499/58116/598645.pdf
William Langewiesche piece: (Also wrote the Estonia piece upthread) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-worst-us-maritime-disaster-in-decades https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w...
- dredmorbius 6y agoMy point was more that when the end came to the El Faro, it most likely came quite suddenly. There were numerous opportunities to avoid disaster. Several other factors also appied. The stories of ships vanishing without a trace, likely due to rogue waves, are quite chilling. MS München (1978) comes to mind, though it seems likely to have survived initial damage for up to 33 hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_München https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_München The Edmund Fitzgerald seems likely to have gone under in minutes if not seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Hypotheses_on_the_cause_of_sinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Hypothese...