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. — On Sept. 29, 2015, the merchant ship SS El Faro was traveling from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico as Hurricane Joaquin approached. Less than 48 hours later, on the morning of Oct. 1, ...

On a routine passage from Florida to Puerto Rico, a cargo ship sails into the heart of a hurricane. No one aboard survives. Here, why it happened. It started as a dip of low pressure over the Atlantic ...

ROCKLAND, Maine (WABI) - 10 years ago, Hurricane Joaquin took the lives of the 33 crew members aboard SS El Faro, including five Maine Maritime Academy graduates. Saturday, a remembrance ceremony was ...

The SS El Faro's sinking in 2015 was America's worst maritime disaster in decades, taking 33 lives. Afterward, making ships safer became a key goal.

Two years to the day after the American cargo ship the SS El Faro sank in a major hurricane off the Bahamas, killing all 33 people on board, U.S. Coast Guard investigators in Jacksonville made public ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Following a heated testimony from a former TOTE able seaman detailing what he considered foul play aboard the vessel, Wednesday’s hearings started out with a telephonic swearing ...

The sinking of the SS El Faro, on October 1, 2015, was America’s worst maritime disaster in decades. El Faro was 790 feet long and hauling 25 million pounds of cargo from Jacksonville, Florida, to San ...

An undated video frame grab showing the stern of the of the sunken freighter El Faro on the seafloor, 15,000-feet deep near the Bahamas. The image was taken by Cable Underwater Recovery Vehicle (CURV) ...

SACO — A Thornton Academy student’s research of the SS El Faro has caught the eye of a television producer. SS El Faro was a “roll on-roll off” cargo ship designed to carry vehicles, and crewed by ...