The doomed cargo ship that sank in the Bahamas last year has finally yielded up a clue that could help investigators determine exactly how it met its end, taking the lives of its 33 crew members with it.
The voyage data recorder (VDR) from El Faro, a US flagged cargo ship that sank during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015, was successfully recovered from the ocean floor late Monday evening, in approximately 15,000 feet of water, about 41 miles (36 nautical miles) northeast of Crooked Islands.