Sinking of El Faro remembered on its first anniversary in Yankee Magazine
How does a modern container ship 790-feet long and with a gross tonnage of 31,515 sink without a sole survivor?
The sinking of El Faro, which occurred exactly one year ago Saturday, was as disastrous as it was rare—and Yankee Magazine‘s Rachel Slade set out to find what “fatal mistake” happened on that October 1 night off the coast of the Bahamas and why.
In remembrance of the first anniversary of El Faro, which traveled directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, Yankee Magazine released a preview of their feature, “A Fatal Mistake: The Sinking of El Faro,” that will appear in its upcoming November/December 2016 print issue.
The article highlights the eight New Englanders—Michael Davidson, Danielle Randolph, Michael Holland, and Dylan Meklin from Maine; Jeffrey Mathias, Mariette Wright, Keith Griffin from Massachusetts; and Mitchell Kuflik from Connecticut—who were all among 33 crewmembers killed at sea.
Slade’s research examines the little information that is known from the night of the sinking, as well as information on the condition of the ship and the veteran captain’s mindset when making the call to head into the storm.
Read the full story at Yankee Magazine.
El Faro before it sank during Hurricane Joaquin in October of 2015.
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