All posts tagged "Tote"

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  NTSB Schedules Mission to Retrieve El Faro’s ‘Black Box’

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Investigators are launching a new effort next month to retrieve the “black box” of a freighter that sank last October with 33 crew members on board. The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday said...

  • Posted June 6, 2016
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  El Faro’s Loss Described as ‘Colossal’ Management Failure

  A second round of U.S. Coast Guard investigative hearings into the sinking of the freighter El Faro ended Friday, closing a sometimes contentious proceeding during which the disaster was characterized by one investigator as “a colossal failure”...

  • Posted May 28, 2016
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  Ex-Ship Captain Says He Was Fired after Airing Safety Fears

  Sailed El Faro's sister ship, El Morro

  • Posted May 17, 2016
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  Testimony: El Faro Captain Planned to ‘Shoot Under’ Storm

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro told a colleague just before the ship’s final voyage that he was aware of a storm brewing at sea, but that he had a plan to...

  • Posted May 16, 2016
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  NTSB: Search Crews Find El Faro’s Missing Data Recorder

  Failed to find it in first search of wreckage, some 15,000 feet under water

  • Posted April 26, 2016
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  Feds to Resume Search for Sunken El Faro’s Data Recorder

  NTSB says goal is to "better document the wreckage to help determine exactly why and how the ship sank"

  • Posted April 17, 2016
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  El Faro Owner Agrees to Pay 3 Maine Families in Settlement

  Tote Has Settled with Nearly Half of the Crew Members' Families

  • Posted March 4, 2016
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  Coast Guard Initially Didn’t Think El Faro Was Sinking

  When an initial report arrived saying the captain of the cargo ship El Faro had called ashore for help, the U.S. Coast Guard didn’t believe the vessel was at risk of sinking and later had software problems...

  • Posted February 24, 2016
• El Faro Was on Coast Guard List of At-Risk Vessels

  The El Faro sank just before it was to be added to a Coast Guard list of vessels identified as having the most “potential for risk,” a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections. The El...

  • Posted February 23, 2016
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• Capt of Doomed El Faro Said ‘Clock is Ticking’ in Final Call

  The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro said in his final call for help that the “clock is ticking” as his ship took on water and lost propulsion. Part of Capt. Michael Davidson’s call was played...

  • Posted February 20, 2016
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