Uncovering 2015 Bermuda Triangle Shipwreck | The Salvage Masters
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Even when all seems lost, something can be saved. "The Salvage Masters" series follows salvage teams as they deploy to the scenes of maritime disasters to solve the biggest engineering challenges on the high seas.
Season 3, Episode 4
In this episode, the cargo ship El Faro sailed directly into the eye of a hurricane in the Bermuda Triangle in 2015, and salvagers are on the quest to find out why. When the ship sank, it cost the lives of all 33 people on board. Using state-of-the-art technology to recover the ship's black box, salvagers seek to understand what led to the tragedy.
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I witnessed that ship. Heading out to sea for its. Last voyage. It was a suverly neglected ship. It looked like a shipwreck looking for a place to happen. Like it had never ever been serviced. Just paint on rust. She had 5 pumps going full as she left. Port.
If you want to know exactly what happened to this doomed ship, watch Brick Immortars version, it’s got the best breakdown of all the details. The captain on this ship was fully to blame, knowingly pushing the limits of the ship and crew into a hurricane. With multiple chances to duck behind islands and wait it out, he pushed on thinking he had been in worse weather in bearing sea. He was also dead set on a promotion to a newer ship class that TOTE was launching very soon.
Thanks. Awesome.
So that's what caused the captain to make sure a poor decision. The truth is out then. Good piece of info that wasn't even mentioned in this video.
No-one got a promotion. For sure the captain put the safety of the ship and crew at risk and they all paid the ultimate price.
Honestly the captains voicemail explains exactly what happened. Water communication (water is getting into the ship, there is a list (the ship is literally laying towards the ocean) propulsion is lost and won’t restart (engine is broke down) so the ship layed down and sank. And nobody at the company could be bothered to answer the phone even while knowing they sent a ship towards a major storm. Everyone failed here, company and captain to be sure. And having worked a maritime job I can attest to the fact that even when you know it’s dangerous something still holds you to doing your job and sailing. I was on a boat that had a pilot who while intoxicated ran our vessel 75’ ashore, he literally full steam ahead hit the bank. We were on the Mississippi where our sounder was reading all 000s and I thought I gotta get off this boat before he sinks it, but I stayed aboard until my transfer went through anyway
Icebergs in the area captain!
Captain:" Full speed ahead, I want to get thru this area"
The oceans will never run out of stupid captains.
How about Halsey, more US warships sank from the hurricanes than the Japanese.
Shameful negligence towards the safety of the crew. Not on not ever.
Please tell me that drunk Captain was fired and never hired again as a Captain, for everybody's safety? I'm not even saying if that's all he can do is ship work that he should never be allowed to work again after getting help but I don't think he should be the final word on a ship ever again. Please explain to me if the first mate is in charge of the cargo and/or passengers, the second mate is in charge of navigation, and the third mate is in charge of safety then why can't they temporarily relieve a drunk Captain of his duties for everyone's safety? I'm positive there are gaps in my knowledge/understanding so I am honestly asking you to teach me if you have the time please? It's always been my understanding that there is a Chief Mate or somebody in training at least who can also steer the ship if need be, Captain's have to sleep too. It's also my understanding that many ports have a special captain's for that port that you have to allow aboard your ship in order to park it in port and that you should be able to call shore for their help in a situation like you had if the Captain aboard has an emergency situation or something like you had.
Blessings to all souls on the El Faro . I lived in Panama City , Fl when hurricane Michael roared through...I cant imagine being on a ship out to sea...Blessing also to the families.
This is so sad. God bless these families. I feel for the sailors who did not agree with their captain as far as continuing on that fatal route and could do nothing but sit there and watch…..the fear they must have felt is inconceivable to me. My heart goes out to them 10 fold.
🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 33 hearts for 33 brave souls and for the families so heartbreaking god has his hands wrapped around them i could only imagine how scared they must have been …
yeah i was listening to this on the ham tuning between the 2 coast guard channels on vhf
crazy
The channel Brick Immorter has an excellent documentary on the El Faro. It’s called Disastrous Indifference.
15:51 RIP to all of those who passed, and prayers up to their loved ones.😢
Excellent documentary. NOW make one of the results of the findings.
Safety before deadlines .Never realized there were such big differences between cargo ships and passenger ships.
Captain was afraid he would lose his job. The Ships owners (company) should have been held accountable , because THEY caused the captain to make the decision that cost everybody their lives. The company should have told the captain to stay anchored where he was instead because of the hurricane. Nobody won in this scenario. NOBODY.
The ship's owner/company should have to give every penny of any insurance money they got for it to the families of the captain and crew. Then at least half that much more to the Coast Guard and American Navy for the cost of finding the vessel that they sent out and then ignored. As someone who regularly picks up scripts for myself and my Dad from Rite Aid I don't understand why you would penalize people for being late because better late than having everything at the bottom of the sea and it never arriving and people dying. When I remind people of the people on the other end and why their package might be late I never hear a complaint after that because sometimes people need to be reminded but they care more about the workers.
Couldn't imagine the fear they had to be going through the faces of the crew really brings it home
That poor guy at the end, couldn't bring himself to say it, as if saying it brings it to be more real each time
"That's the only reason my shipmates are...are....are....they perished" 😥😥
P.s. The ships company lost the crew, lost the ship and lost the cargo.... NO ships should be permitted to sail in Hurricane conditions.. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
This is one of the biggest problems in shipping is that there is a time frame which is totally ridiculous they want that shipment there regardless of human life which is unacceptable and these poor souls lost their lives it must stop.
Very much appreciated, thank you.
A company under pressure to deliver goods, a captain under pressure to make that happen and an old poorly maintained with one bilge keel in the scrappers yard rust bucket of a ship add in one storm shake vigorously and you have the story of the EL FARO.
Very well spoken deck hand please listen greedy money monsters😮😮😮
Yes he was experienced with the shipping business and his experience was to stay put. They should have never left. I believe Ken was very hurt by this poor decision. So sad😢.
Pretty simple: a detour and we would not be commenting on a incident like this. If you look at the map you can clearly see that the detour is small enough as to be inconsequential to the bottom line in a large scale operation.
They talk about the pressure of delivering on time but I tend to think there was an invincibility problem with the commander. He weighed his options and chose to sail into the eye of the storm. That ship never arrived. It was way late. Captain's fault. He over estimated his chances literally leaving himself in an inescapable situation I think even the second officer realized and should have spoken up and maybe she did and that made the Captain that much more determined to do it anyways.
Two people warned him and he did it anyways.
Ego.
It is sad that the NTSB and Coast Guard permits shipping companies to prostitute safety for profits. The only thing to help is for the families of the deceased to have a class action law suit against the owners of the shipping company and deposition the voice recorders from the El Fargro to be used as evidence. In the airlines dispatching an aircraft and deciding its route is the joint responsibility of the captain and company dispatcher. It is hard to believe that the company does not play a role in dispatching the ship. By the NTSB refusing to release the voice tapes, they are protecting the mal practice of the shipping company. By the NTSB permitting railroads to perform one minute inspections of freight cars you have disasters like the recent Palestine Ohio derailment.
I was on-board, CV-67, mid Atlantic, during a Hurricane, from Africa, August 1980, Cat 5, It's a , feeling, like NO -OTHER. 50 ft waves, with 75 ft. @ times.
33 needless and senseless deaths caused by greed.
May GOD bless the families of the victims of El Faro.
On one hand the shipping company was under pressure to deliver the cargo on time and avoid penalties…..
Well the decision they made was much worse. The company lost the ship, the crew onboard, the cargo and they still late for delivery and be penalized for that!
Those were greedy decisions made and the crew perished
The Captain is the Master of the Vessel. I recall the day they left i was living in the Dominican Republic and I was shocked to see they put to see as the storm was getting close to the DR already and it was fierce. It was made clear that he made the decision to leave Jacksonville. Yes, the old Bahama channel would have been safer, however the water would have been very rough there as well. As for hiding behind the islands near the Turks, they were only at Crooked island. In any event, all those islands are small and would not have provided much, if any, relief from the storm.
It is beyond belief that he could have been pressed to head out into a known peril, it would also be ludicrous that they could get penalties for being late with the hurricane being active in the area. It is a force majeure and all contracts for sea delivery would include an exception for force majeure.
It all boils down to corrupt greed! Money money money. Lives lost because money!
2:16 the black fella is spot on. If it don't make dollars it don't make cents. -George Floyd
I completely agree!!
😮 can’t believe this happened. It was the captains fault. He was told about the storm and sailed into it. Sad this happened.
The Captain's is in charge. His decisions sank his ship and killed everyone aboard with him.
Am no sea farer but @04:38 if that thing that looks like an aged rust bucket is the sister ship what condition was the one lost in, or is that just superficial rust , rust is rust no matter how you look at it me thinks. RIP the mariners lost . Luv how the attorney says the US has the tightest safety regulations if they do why was that poorly maintained ship even allowed to leave port???It was 40years old way past its use by date but they had just one more runs out of it. Has nothing been learnt from the Edmund Fitzgerald same scenario, just one more run.....................
Greed just plain Greed and cutting corners on maintenance killed all of these people. These companies dont car just workers that can be replace. I wonder if the families did a Law Suit
That 's really sad.
The major inflow of water was due to cars that came loose and damaged the fire impression system. They were able to secure the scuttle hatches... it was the 4-6" water lines that just sucked in to much water...add in the fact the engineers didn't maintain the oil levels
Greed never makes sense
Company owners don't care about anything but money.
So he has no propulsion and they tell him to steer a course for shallow water? That makes zero sense.
Yeah, steer towards shallow water, through churning seas, with no power, you are relying on the right wave paterns, and they are outside of a hurricane, you can still steer it but not hardly well enough to do anything about said storm, it’s almost like the shipping company is either oblivious idiots or know nothing about how boats work or don’t care, I’m thinking it’s the latter because if you ask a little kid what you would have to worry about hurting a boat at see a they can come up with a better list of things than the emergency maritime disaster call center had and was trained to deal with
It is a tragic event
33 crew on a cargo ship? That’s ridiculous to me, an ex seaman from 50 years ago when I quit the sea.
Very sad. Senseless!! By the way Joaquin is pronounced " wah-keen"
That skipper didn’t sound empowered to have to ask permission to talk to management… I started out blaming him.. but realised he’s just as likely felt trapped as his crew were
JOAQUIN - pronounced WA-KEEN Mr. Narrator. You should know how to pronounce names and words in your position as narrator.
That was driving me up a wall every time he said it!! Cringed like someone was dragging their fingers across a chalkboard!!
Ouch
I had no idea what he was saying until I read your post. Now I can't stop cringing lol
Hurricane WHAT? Joaquim... "Whock-eem" and we get Joe-A-Que-im...
Beautifully scripted with all pertinent information given. Families are still receiving remains from the USS Arizona, N.Korea and other locations. So, recovery of the deceased may be possible in the future. This is a relection of Tote's company standards. Contracting with U.S. federal government to continually provide a steady, ongoing delivery of goods and being able to fulfill the contracted agreement contains no standards for the safe delivery of the supplies. While being stationed in Aleutians there were times when the supply ship was delayed. Then necessary immediate supplies were flown in. Perhaps replenishment of areas may possibly be stock piled. A lesson will be learned from this disaster. Would like to know the results of the NTSB investigations.😊
the company is more concern for profit rather than safety of the crews
The captain was scared for his job so the decision to sail or not sail should have been made by someone higher up the food chain. The decision to abandon or not to abandon ship should be made by the captain and or someone on the ship but the Captain's decision this time took 37 lives with him
What comes to mind is the insurance on the ship. It wouldn't be the 1st time this has been done.
Why does this look like it was filmed in the 80s?
Captain did this on purpose.
He had ample time to duck behind a few islands. He was going to be reprimanded on his return.
Money is greedy. Greed can kill.
To all ye captains who think your invincible, a mutiny awaits the.
if only that crew had been so lucky...
There is or was cruise ships such as Marco Polo an Astoria older than EL Fado, an our Aircraft carriers of had problems and there new
If I was one of the crew , I would have just quit and got off the ship.
Sailing into a hurricane is just stupid.
It would've been a lot cheaper for the upper echelon'$ to just either not send the ship/or build a a more capable one, and then send it, or not send anything at all, until after all threats have passed, both structural and/or natural...
Do the words "a perfect storm" mean anything anymore???
(Not really 😢)
U want the answer. Money! That was the only concern.
You don't need Professional Skills to know not to go into a Hurricane while at sea
Like the Edmond Fitzgerald
Yeah. Just like how the container ship Edmond Fitzgerald sank in a tropical cyclone. Same thing....
Yes brother you said it it's all about money very sad
Yes, another testament to greed.
The ship sank because the Captain was a jack ass and sailed into a Strom.
What is there to say?
The captain was a clown, killed 33 people because he didn't want to take an alternate route. Not a good captain and now there are 33 families grieving for their loved ones.
@@getin3949😂The captain was doing what he knew the company wanted. Time is money with them. The crew of the Maersk Alabama were extremely mad that captain Phillips didn’t take the ship farther offshore to avoid pirates but Phillips knew damn well the company would be very unhappy about the 600 miles worth of fuel and being late for the next port.
It’s the same the world over, money before safety. One word comes to mind Boeing!
The ship's owner/company should have to give every penny of any insurance money they got for the lost ship to the families of the captain and crew, as a lesson. Then at least half that much more to the Coast Guard and American Navy for the cost of finding the vessel that they sent out and then ignored. As someone who regularly picks up scripts for myself and my Dad from Rite Aid I don't understand why you would penalize people for being late because better late than having everything at the bottom of the sea and it never arriving and people dying. When I remind people of the people on the other end and why their package might be late I never hear a complaint after that because sometimes people need to be reminded but they care more about the workers. I have grown up around truckers and their families and to this day I talk to truckers who are friends regularly or in passing at truck stops and I know what they're dealing with out there and I know how we lose them and I understand that they're usually the end of the line and that it often starts with sea shipping. I couldn't even tell you how many people I've taught how to look at where the item they've ordered is actually originally coming from and explained to them in layman terms what it has to go through to get to them and they are the people who are not complaining and I promise, the people you never get complaints from, they're the majority. You can replace ships, cargo, and trucks but you can't replace the loved ones people loose. Money can't replace the individual that is lost or the hole that is left in so many lives.
7:22
Stop saying uhm.
Mystery solved... greedy captain. 😒
who'd have thought profits before human lives
how do you heard "Jooaquin" pronounced so many times and still mispronounce it?
2:18 "It doesn't make any sense."
Thats capitalism for you.
I've watched several documentaries on the ELFARO. And even the day before they went into the hurricane a few of the ships crew were messaging there loved ones that they can't understand what the captain was doing they even knew then they were in trouble but they were powerless against captains orders they pled with him to change course numerous times..stupid bull headed idiot that captain single handedly took every life on that ship away for no valid reason.....
The sea got fed good
Commercials about every 3 minutes.
The sound of the captain recording sound like an incompetent captain.( overconfidence )
American ship operated by lowest bid captain and crew
Bad seamanship
The crew on that ship where lax on everything. The cargo wasn’t ever tied down properly and general maintenance was not done properly. I doubt that hatch popped open, it was probably never shut in the first place.