A ship captain's unwillingness to listen to his crew's suggestions to change course from the path of a raging hurricane. A weak corporate safety culture that left crewmembers ill-prepared to deal with ...

The captain of the El Faro, the cargo ship believed to have sunk during Hurricane Joaquin, was "calm" during the ship's final call to shore, the safety officer who received the call told the National ...

A port engineer testified that the captain of the El Faro wrote about Hurricane Joaquin in his daily report a day before the ship sank near the Bahamas last fall. During the final day of a 10-day ...

Ten years ago this week, one of the worst maritime disasters in American history took place in the Bahamas. Thirty-three crew members of the container ship SS El Faro sailed directly into Hurricane ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane.

See the memorial honoring the 33 souls lost when the El Faro sank during Hurricane Joaquin The memorial features a row of 33 markers dedicated to the individuals who lost there lives on October 1, ...