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They Sailed Into the Eye: The Decisions That Drowned El Faro
They Sailed Into the Eye: The Decisions That Drowned El Faro
Fear of avoidable loss: a Category Four hurricane named Joaquin was predicted by the National Hurricane Center, yet El Faro sailed on with 33 people aboard and the voyage data recorder captured the final desperate calls; how did routine decisions stack up into catastrophe and why did the ship steam toward the storm's eye? Who chose to depart Jacksonville on September 29, 2015, and what warnings were set aside?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, technical changes, and conversations recorded in the ship's last minutes…
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