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Why is every explanation of Expedition on flat Earth map? Never see it shown on a globe! Because it makes no sense on a Globe. #FlatEarth

This video is really low effort

Rachel Slade (Into the Raging Storm author) suggests and I find it pretty plausible that the crew may not have even been able to exit a door to try to board a lifeboat by that point, perhaps with a desperate exception or two (the person whose body that was briefly located, maybe?), never mind been able to get to and LAUNCH the lifeboats in those conditions with that list + waves, without the boats immediately getting smashed into the ship with containers being tossed about and dozens of ejected ones probably still violently afloat close by. I've been briefly outside in low-CAT 1 conditions on land and i can't imagine anyone hacking through that powerful of a storm effectively at sea, outside, even on the safest craft in the world that isn't minutes from capsizing and with no shipping containers raining down on me. So my point being: the lifeboat grandfathering definitely should have ended years prior, but even if they'd had adequate lifeboats, I'm solemnly doubtful that there was much hope for anyone after Davidson's final rejection of Randolph's proposed escape plan. So yeah it's pretty much on Davidson. And TOTE. And a little on Bon Voyage too--I mean what a *stupid* product/default setting. TOTE almost never gets enough blame though--we can attribute Davidson's decisions to incompetence, ego, eagerness to save his career, etc and it's fair to decide he's unforgivable. Those are the kind of things that have always motivated flawed dipshit humans though. An individual asleep at the wheel can be a terrible thing, but it's not exactly shocking that it happens all the time. TOTE is an entire company whose leadership ultimately maintained that they basically couldn't have done anything differently in the way of shoreside support or supervision because Captain apparently means he is King of the Universe. Or maintained their badly-refitted ships better. Even with the lifeboats--yeah they weren't REQUIRED to replace the useless ones yet, but that's not the same thing as having been prevented from voluntarily doing so because you believe that people's lives are valuable. Everything shameful about the condition of that ship was ultimately a choice, measured against a bottom line.

This needs to be a dark comedy

Wonderful telling of one of the most tragic maritime stories of all time.

You would've thought the captain would've learned from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disaster. But clearly he didn't. Smh

Captain mike was told many times they needed to go another way he refused he lost 33 people and the ship

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It’s kind if insane that the company has no one on shore keeping tabs on a ship sailing straight through a hurricane. They should have been ordered to change course by someone with proper weather forecasts and the authority to override the captain..

The Capt was nuts and the crew was just plain stupid, they let the Capt have his own way and they all died.

I’ve watched this video or another version of it several times and every time I watch it, the Captain infuriates me more and more.. the way he carelessly arrogantly or just not at all cared for the other people on board is shocking ..

its bs this video 2nd mate type not friends but her mother

Poor kids! Didn't deserve that at all..

Very sad. All the 33 crew members died because they had a idiot for a Captain. If there is a Huricane on the way. Stop and do not sail. If you want to gamble with your life then go head. This idiot for a Captain gambled with the lives of all 33 crew members. Also the survival rafts were all out dated. Perhaps this is why there were no survivors. Not only did the 33 crew members die. Sadly if their bodies were never found they were eaten by sharks. They should have had state of the art , top of the line rafts. With a sealed top. With bottled water to last two months. Food to last one or two months. The raft should have been a bright or yellow. With solar powered lights. Each raft able to hold ten crew members. With a PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACON , on each raft. With a direction locator to tell the passengers where they are and where they are going. Plus a way to direct the path they are going to. This way the raft would not get lost at sea. Sadly this arrogant Captain Davidson choose to sail through a Huricane, category #3 . As a sad result the ship sank and all 33 crew members died.

Wasn't he an architect?

Funny how it is always the last trip of the season before a ship is lost

Get your story straight? I've read two books on this ship's demise and your account is ridiculously full of inaccuracies.

At what point should the other officers take over command when the Captain was clearly heading straight into the hurricane?

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Fair Winds & following Seas Shipmates❤

I think everyone should seek their own breaking point in life threating situations at least once a year, preferably in april or may.

Excellent job, Brad. Our family has since acquired William Massey’s Dauntless and she has been sailing safely since this tragedy. For anyone who would venture out onto Mobile Bay: Do not take it for granted and always be prepared. Safe winds to all.

Thats ss el faro

Omg that's just so horrific and sad man. Dang. 😢😢😢😢😢

The Captain really just pissed his pants at every juncture. Why is the recording cut off when the ship goes down? You’d think they’d protect it so it could broadcast telemetry. I find it a little weird that nobody made it off the ship but I guess it’s high enough to swamp the ship it’s high enough to swamp a life raft.

It's a suicide voyage by the Captain and took with him 31 lives of his crews.

the patenela an its dissapearance is such a mystery..................that it scares me when i see that photo of it i get cold and a chill goes down my spine...........

Apparently some fishermen found it in mauritius 🇲🇺

what happened to the Polish guys that were working on the ship?

Life rafts, immersion suits, beacons, GPS transmitters, etc. etc... are supposed to save lives in these situations. I guess the captain waited too long to abandon ship.

the calm before the storm isn’t just an expression. why the heck were so many people not wearing life jackets? it’s incredibly reckless.

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the man Gold roger is base on from One piece

This is a textbook example of a SEVERE Mid-life crisis.

That body found floating - how could that be from El Faro? Bodies don't decompose/swell so badly it's not even possible to know which gender, with 2-3 days. It must have been from another ship?

That engine picture is a diesel. El Faro was a Steam ship with a boiler and turbines. When Davidson called the office...it was way too late. Nothing anyone in the office could do. The security alert is NOT a destress system for sinking. Davidson was probably referring to the GMDSS Distress system. Davidson was way too late in all respects. I sailed as a Chief Officer on oceangoing ships for 18 years., many times in large storms, hurricanes, seas 40ft or more. In once case 100 ft seas, blinding snow - zero visibility. - negative 50 windchill. We just rode that one out "Hove too" dead slow ahead. That was a 987 ft ship and in great condition. Lots of issues in this case with the maintenance and ISM Code requirements. What happened to Buys Ballots Law? Simple technique taught at Maritime Academies to determine the location of the storm center. duckduckgo.com/?q=buys+ballot+law+explanation&t=osx&ia=web

We got a monument for them here in Maine cause i believe 2-3 were from Maine

The Captains ego got the better of him and crew

Nice video!

Lovely story telling

Such a fascinating story😅.

captain looks like a game show host

Ship masters should be required to heed the advice of fellow officers, much like it is done on airplanes. CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT! Also, Tote's Director of Marine Operations should have intervened. The captain's poor judgment should have been obvious to anyone onshore following real-time weather for asking. Tote's management was obviously complacent regarding the safety of their ship and it's crew!

I have seen what Irma caused of damage on St Maarten. The pictures in the travel magazines and they were still repairing PJIA when I arrived & departed In 2019.

Excellent video....well done with great narration. I just found your channel. I live in Mobile and although I wasn't in the DI race that day, I was anchored in my Beneteau 42s7 with two other sailboats at Dauphin Island. We were rafted together in the small harbor (it has a very bad muddy soup-like bottom with little holding power). My boat was in the middle and suffered considerable damage from the other two boats. Here's a link to the short video I made of the incident: th-cam.com/video/rAh3i9pQ9jY/w-d-xo.html

the owneres should have not let them sail...the captain has some blame ..but the owners put greed before safty.. they let them sail in a boat that was not fit for any seae never mind a bath tub...

The captain's ignorance and selfish self belief that he knew better than anyone else on board the El Faro is obviously the reason the ship sank and he's responsible for the deaths of everyone on board. I can't understand how he could just ignore everyone else's serious concerns about the course the captain decided to stick to, surely the other people on the bridge would have a legitimate say in what course they would take seen as these are human beings risking their lives anyway, let alone in hurricane season.

As Master on cargo vessel , almost double size then El Faro , I am shocked with both, the captain and the first officer how they acted, given their age and experience. Shocked. There is no way that any Company will ever prohibit or prevent Your recommended route for safe passage. Never. And when comes to situation like that , when life's are at stake, and no commercial risk, You don't ask permission for adjusting or altering route. You have all sources and information's available , and You decide. Have experience with that.

That is too bad I'm so sorry for the families of these people that died even Captain snapperhead Gump