Federal investigators say the probable cause of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro started with the captain's failure to listen to suggestions to take a safer route, and the vessel owner's poor ...

The Latest on the final hearing to determine probable cause in the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro, which killed 33 mariners (all times local): 9:45 a.m. The National Transportation Safety Board's ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - The captain of the doomed El Faro cargo ship sounded an alarm for his crew to abandon the vessel shortly before it sank last fall in a hurricane near the Bahamas, killing all ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. investigators on Friday concluded two weeks of hearings into the sinking of cargo ship El Faro in a hurricane last fall that included reports the vessel had outdated ...

All but ten of the families involved in the sinking of El Faro have now reached settlements with the ship’s owner and operator. Nearly one year ago, El Faro sank in Hurricane Joaquin while traveling ...

Jay Sawyer looks out at Rockland Harbor, past his steel sculpture, and thinks of the 33 merchant mariners who lost their lives in a terrible storm on the cargo ship El Faro. That was October 1, 2015.

A Coast Guard report released Sunday says the primary cause of the 2015 sinking of the cargo ship El Faro, which killed all 33 aboard, was the captain underestimating the strength of a hurricane and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The owners of the El Faro ship filed papers in court this week. And in those papers, the company — Tote Maritime — argues it should not be held liable for the ship sinking at sea, ...

A ship captain's unwillingness to listen to his crew's suggestions to change course from the path of a raging hurricane. A weak corporate safety culture that left crewmembers ill-prepared to deal with ...