Search ending for ship’s crew

“It’s only been a couple of days”.

The El Faro left Jacksonville, Florida, for Puerto Rico on September 29, when Joaquin was a tropical storm. “I feel like someone is still out there”.

“Today, 28 American families – from Florida to Maine – and five Polish families are heartbroken”, he said. “Our students know that I am here to support them, as are the staff and faculty and the wider community of Castine”.

“It is a big challenge when there is such a large area of water at such a depth”, said NTSB Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr in Washington as she and the team prepared to leave earlier Tuesday.

The El Faro, on a course from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been missing since October 1 as it sailed through the Bahamas at the height of the storm, which had winds of 140 miles per hour and waves topping 50 feet.

The latest on a U.S.-based cargo ship that sank in the Atlantic and the search for crew members. Fedor also said searchers have not yet found the ship’s second life boat, but have found a deflated life raft.

Only one body had been recovered.

He said the ship “had the best of equipment, it was well inspected”. “It’s just a dire situation”, he said. “We don’t get trained to survive in a hurricane in the ocean”, Meadows said. Coast Guard records show it underwent its last inspection in March.

By preparing to end its search at sunset, the Coast Guard all but confirmed family members’ worst fears – that all hands were lost.

“They were dedicated engineers, technicians and a cook”.

Its last known location was 35 miles north of the Crooked Islands, in the Bahamas.

The ship is believed to have sunk in waters that are 15,000 feet deep.

Fedor, who stressed a communal bond between the Coast Guard and the missing crew and their families, called the ship’s disappeared crew members “our fellow professional mariners”.

Derrick Porter, a cousin of crew members James Porter and Jackie Jones, said the news devastated him.

“Joseph Murphy, a former master of commercial ships and now an instructor at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, told Here & Now that he can understand why the tragedy occurred”. “This is going to be really, really hard”, sge said. The American Bureau of Shipping, a nonprofit organization that sets safety and other standards for ships, did full hull and machinery inspections in February with no red flags, the company said. “The cargo is worth more than we are”, he said. “We’ve been baptized in those same salt waters”. Company officials say they do not believe that work caused a loss of power.

“Any decision to suspend a search is painful”, said Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor. He refused to take questions after reading the statement to reporters.

The Coast Guard says they found a safety ring from El Faro in a debris field, a damaged life boat, and a survival suit with unidentifiable human remains. Its batteries can last for a month.