US Coast Guard calls off search for missing USA ship

President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed condolences to families of all 33 mariners, who are now presumed dead.

October. 1 – 7:20 a.m. – El Faro’s last communication.

The Coast Guard continues to search for any sign of the 33-member crew.

The Coast Guard says it has ended its search for 33 missing crew members from a USA cargo ship that sank last week during Hurricane Joaquin.

The vessel sank last week during Hurricane Joaquin.

Earlier Wednesday, the Coast Guard reported locating more debris from the ship, including a life jacket and an empty survival suit.

“Tote Maritime has great confidence in its highly experienced officers”, the company said.

The Coast Guard made the announcement Wednesday afternoon. “We honor them best by continuing to dedicate our diligence to that which was their passion”.

CNN witnessed this to a degree, first hand, on Monday when the Coast Guard took two CNN journalists up for a 10-hour flight northeast of San Salvador Island, Bahamas.

“Our focus has been, for the last week, very much on the search for the El Faro and the families of the crew”, Parrott said.

Safety Board vice chairwoman Bella Dinh-Zarr said their investigation so far has included talking with the captain of the El Yunque. But without the El Faro’s voyage data recorder, nothing can be confirmed. A ship that should be able to handle the rough seas.

“There is a hurricane out here, and we are headed straight into it”, the mariner wrote her mother. “And not do it with a storm coming that can potentially become a hurricane”.

The El Faro had no history of engine failure, Greene said, and the company said the vessel was modernized in 1992 and 2006.

His ship, El Faro, vanished after it lost power during the height of Joaquin’s onslaught.

“And then of course, the understanding sets in that you’re really helpless to assist them in any way”, Murphy said.

One unidentified body in a survival suit was spotted, CBS News reported.

“When we describe it as a family business, we don’t just mean our family, we mean everybody who works there”, he said. “He indicated that he had had a navigational incident”. Hearman said he thought Davidson likely was trying to prove a point to the company that he could do the job.

“I’m not certain of the circumstances, why it was open”, he said, responding to a question from CNN. “But that’s where the water came from”.

An investigation is under way into what led the ship to lose propulsion, and why it found itself in the path of the storm. He told reporters, “We don’t have all the answers, I’m sorry for that”.

NTSB investigators arrived in Jacksonville on Tuesday.

The state academies are little known to the public at large but their graduates support the commercial maritime industry around the world. He said he does not believe the age of the ship was one of the reasons it may have sunk.

In a letter to the NTSB, Nelson- who is a member of the Senate Commerce Committee- asked the agency to look in to the company’s policies and guidance on vessel operations in severe weather, saying that initial reports on what happened raise “serious concerns”.

Jeffrey Mathias, a Kingston resident and a member of the church, was on board the El Faro.