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Default Sinking of the Cargo Ship El Faro - a detailed report

Man that was intensely gruesome. Watching and hearing it play out was about all I could stand at 9 minutes.

Incompetency was the main factor. Would there have been a penalty if the helmsman had followed is own intuition nd changed course? He would have probably saved the ship