Black box from sunken ship reveals crew’s last minutes
Ten minutes after the master of the cargo ship El Faro ordered his crew to abandon ship, the audio recording of the doomed ship’s final hours went silent.
That was one of the details released yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which successfully recovered the El Faro’s voyage data recorder (VDR) from the ocean floor Aug. 8, 2016. The US flagged cargo ship that sank about 39 nautical miles northeast of Crooked Island, Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015. All 33 crew members perished in the tragedy.