Captain Steers Ship Straight Into a Hurricane
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- The in-depth story of the sinking of the El Faro 2015. The vessel made the headlines when it disappeared on the outskirts of the Bermuda Triangle. The last time anyone heard from those onboard the El Faro was when it headed straight into the heart of Hurricane Joaquin.
At dawn, not a single trace remained. The ship had vanished as if it never existed.
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Bro pulled up the weather app and called himself a meteorologist
Especially considering how often the weather app gets the weather right (AKA never)
And then took a 8 hour uninterrupted rest. Lmaooo
🤣🤣
@@maryellenqueenan1476now he's resting in the depths😂
The poor second mate and crew... Stuck with such a captain
Auhhh likes Merica now ?🤔🤔🤷🏿♂️🙈
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The rest of the crew should have jailed the captain and took over the helm.
Happened more. Airline Captains who think they are god. The higher you are in the society the more they feel flying on a sky and be the king of the hill.
And then people die because they think they can handle it.
@@1gbayfisherthe ntsb report suggested not to that extreme but for the subordinates to tell the captain he is doing something very stupid.
This just shows the captain was running on pure ego, human error at its best
Pure ego huh? So pressure to perform had nothing to do with it eh? Drawing from previous experience didn't have anything to do with it? Having a gambling nature didn't have anything to do with it? It was all self-esteem. Not confidence in his ship but confidence in himself. Okay
@@bradsanders407Not really sure what point you're trying to make
@@bradsanders407 the helll is this dude rambling about?
Autism incarnate@@bradsanders407
Cum on maan🤷🏿♂️
Imagine thinking you're smarter/stronger than a FREAKING HURRICANE.
The us navy suffered severe damage during the Second World War doing the exact same thing
To be fair I'm definitely smarter than a hurricane.
Taught he was the main character
Those hurricanes are geniuses.
Yes, a Submarine Commander
"We should be fine. No, we're GONNA be fine." _Detrimental Optimism._
The horrible judgement that this "Captain" showed was almost inconceivable.
Makes me wonder if he suffered an undiagnosed mental illness. Might explain his inconceivable decisions.
He should not have even been in charge of a rowboat.😡
Much like the current 'captain' of America! He's can't even walk up stairs without falling!
But all of his officers are complicit in this also. The completely failed their duty as well
Agreed, but there was more to it than just incompetence. The captain made some choices probably seeking a promotion, essentially, he didn't want to deviate his schedule too much as he felt it would hinder his chances at getting promoted to captain of a newer vessel. See Brick Immortar's video for more details, it's well done.
That captain essentially killed his entire crew.
He literally killed them all, including himself 🤦🏾♀️
it's so sad how his ego and being in denial of wrongdoing put so many people's lives a risk including his own..
He didn’t just put them at risk. He got them killed.
Everyone: "captain the ships sinking"
Captain: "👌"
My condolences to the innocent crew, who were led to their death by an egoist captain, desperate for a promotion. Thanks for the reupload!
I was in the South China Sea on an aircraft carrier during a class 3 typhoon. Our captain spent 3 full days on the bridge, seeing the ship through. We got beat up pretty bad, but we had a master mariner in command. I feel for this crew with this dilwad a the helm!
That’s badass
Agreed💯
Very Sad🙏👆
Been in a couple typhoons in the bearing sea. Seen 55ft swells. Our captains a dick and makes us keep fishing
For me English is a second language. That makes that, although rather fluent at it, you don't get al the finesses you'd have in your mother tongue. So for me it was nice to learn this new word. Dilwad! The best Dutch translation I can think about would be 'flapdrol'. And both words seem to describe that moron captain pretty good!
Just so we all agree - this has nothing to do with the Bermuda Triangle.
Of course. Can’t you see Neptun don’t like this triangle?
The Bermuda Triangle has been known to have huge rogue waves and is in a popular hurricane paths and it’s hella deep that’s y it’s so dangerous. So it kinda does have to do with the triangle
@evilhag4206 It does, but the accident is caused by the overconfident captain anyway. The hurricane just does its own businesses.
@@evilhag4206it's also the sea equivalent to a busy intersection during rush hour in New York City which doesn't help matters
@@theentitledsiriowlsx the Captains crazy thoughts were because of the triangle. Its the magnetic fields and such, scrambles the brains like eggs, everyone knows this.
I was on the cruise ship that encountered the El Faros debris. At the time, we just thought it something that fell off our ship. We never thought any modern ship would willfully sail through a hurricane so it never dawned on us that it was wreckage.
Finding the life suits is some scary stuff, we don’t know if the hurricane removed them from the suits or they dropped them thinking they can float better without the weight …this is insane
What’s so frustrating is that none of that would’ve happened if the captain had of 1) Not driven into a hurricane, 2) immediately declared a mayday and given the order to muster & prepare to abandon ship. Dumbass was too busy calling customer service to even care about his crew.
There was a body in the suit that wasn’t recovered (lost it when the CG returned) but it was unrecognizable according to the book.
@@jimgargas2480 I've been on water recoveries before. It's not pretty. Bodies don't last long especially in salt water.
@@Revenant_KnightI wouldn’t want to be a diver that has to look for missing bodies in lakes or other waterways. The visibility is so low in those areas and the thought of all of a sudden seeing a face rotting away in front of me would give me chills. Also I would imagine that when you try to bring them up body parts would just disconnect easily so you grab the arm and it just rips off like nothing.
Legend has it Captain Jackass is still waiting to speak to a Q.I.
If I had a nickel every time I heard the lifeboats couldn't be released due to the list...
Not that they'd have done a bit of good in the eye of that storm.
@swbigfan1 well seeing how they found a couple I'd say they would have stood a chance.
@@bradsanders407 There's a difference between the lifeboat staying afloat and people being able to survive in that lifeboat. If they'd have had enclosed lifeboats that launch from the ship they may have had a chance, but El Faro only had open lifeboats & the experts I've seen cited in news reports indicated the crew would only have been able to survive a few minutes in open lifeboats in a hurricane.
Also, it's an open question whether it would even have been possible to launch the types of boats they had during a hurricane (the boats that were found were not launched, rather damage indicated they'd been ripped loose during the sinking).
We got caught in a storm on the only cruise I’ve ever been on and we couldn’t get off on the boats at the island. So it kinda came to mind that if for some reason we started sinking, we were kinda screwed because the water was so rough.
@@swbigfan1 I'll never understand why enclosed lifeboats are not compulsory on every ship. Open lifeboats are rather useless in a storm and heavy seas.
This is the video I published 3 days ago, now with fixed audio :)
Didn't even notice any broken audio in the first one. What was broken? 🤔
@@duhhtor mixing was off
So this reupload due to audio problem. It's okay. Overall, that incident shouldn't avoid it if they postponed the shipping till the hurricane passed by. The captain made a terrible decision that causes him and his crew to die from Hurricane Joaquin.
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Thank you for clarifying this in a comment, was totally confused cause I listened to it yesterday.
Open to all they may know the answer : BIG QUESTION….
At what point during a voyage, can the crew intervene and take LEGAL control of the ship because it has become a consensus among all aboard that the captain is acting NOT in accordance to Maritime law in regards to the overall safety of the ship and it’s occupants
I don't know the answer, but here's my 2 cents.
I don't think something like that could ever be truly codified because it will always be something different. There will never be 1 set of circumstances that would force an entire crew to mutiny. And codifying it into law could actually open the act up to loop holes and you'll end up with genuine bad actors trying to force those criteria for xyz reasons.
I think this should be one of those things that is left to the discretion of the crew. Something like this would only ever come up during extremely stressful/dangerous situations, where the entire crew would go "screw this, this has gone too far, we have to put a stop to this guy". I feel like that moment can only be gauged by the people who are present and living it while its happening. So it has to be handled on a case to case basis, kinda like how self defense cases are judged. The big question for the trial would be "Do the circumstances of the mutiny (why, where, how, who) justify the crew's actions".
@@arsalan2231 well I didn’t want for it to seem like I meant when is it OK for the crew to mutiny lol… what I meant was what if any are circumstances in which LEGALLY..the crew can have the captain control of the bridge, suspended and a qualified crewmember steer the vessel out of perceived danger.
Too bad because that stinky chick was cute and quite intelligent.
Great comparison.... it would have to be like self defense cases....the people present would have to make the judgement based on the circumstances....and if everyone survives then it can be investigated whether the crew used best judgment to over ride their captains role or not...but to make a law would be extremely hard and again makes zero sense since every situation is different....very unfortunate this captain failed to lead his crew and himself to safety just to save face...the human ego is very fragile @arsalan2231
I don't think there's any set legal point. However, if you don't mind getting fired forever and taking responsibility for anything that might happen due to your decisions, I'd say that when the captain went to bed for hours while they got further into danger would have been a good time to do so, if anyone were willing to. But it would mean all involved would have to agree or someone would just go wake him up and he'd come take back over, I guess.
I did think there was some sort of attitude toward crew resource management, such as is used in airlines that means each person in the cockpit has some responsibility toward decision making (though we all know pilots often have huge egos and won't necessarily listen to those on their crew, even if it's in everyone's best interest). I thought this existed in ships to some extent, though not as much as with planes.
I watched a full hour long documentary on the El Faro disaster. Such a tragedy. The Captain had recently been overlooked for a promotion, and it is speculated that he was trying to “prove” himself by delivering the cargo on time, despite of the hurricane. I feel so bad for the crew, they all went through hell and were essentially sacrificed for the ego of the captain.
What a damn shame. RIP to the crew. Captain messed up really really bad.
Reminds me of the movie, "The Perfect Storm" so tragic, the saying, "Pride cometh before the fall" certainly applies to the Captain. I couldn't help but pause and look at all the names and faces of the Crew of the Ship and mourn so many lives taken so wreaklessly
May their souls rest in peace 😭
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@@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197 Most obvious rage bait
@@aurorasguard if a simple "no" makes anyone rage, then i just feel sorry for them
@@aurorasguardthey're a stupid bot
@@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197Shows you lack compassion Bot trying pretending to be more “human” next time 🤡
The second mate’s story makes me so sad. The way it was portrayed on the show “disasters at sea” stuck with me so much that I thought of her when I saw the thumbnail. I hope she found peace 😢
The only thing scarier than dying in the ocean would be dying in the ocean on the dark
Who the hell sets sail when a hurricane is coming?! They should have been forced to stay in Jacksonville until Joachin either made landfall and dissipated or had clearly north beyond the port. This guy’s ego was beyond ridiculous and he caused unimaginable anguish to 32 families.
There should be policies in case of arrogant and reckless captain's like this. The company they work for should have ordered them to not go that way. They would have lost a lot a money with this sinking , even if they don't care about the crew's lives.
yeah this is crazy too because hurricanes are completely unpredictable, they can just suddenly make a turn whenever especially in this specific area you don't know if its going to turn north or try to push across the islands and into the gulf of mexico.
Ships have to still function, even when storms are predicted or in the general area. However, due to the ocean being, you know, huge, and information being as accessible as it is, it's generally easy to avoid putting themselves directly in danger. Him shifting just a few degrees and using the same route he'd used during the previous month when a storm had been predicted and in an area they would be passing would have avoided this tragedy and only delayed them by I think like half a day. They'd have been further from the storm and in more protected waters and been just fine. What's messed up is that he made that call himself the month before and wasn't questioned at all, nor got any push back or any type of reprimand from the company so it stands to reason that they'd have responded the same way had he decided to do it again. But he didn't. In another video on this, I saw where he'd been telling the crew after it started to get rough that this was "nothing" and that he'd worked in worse conditions in Alaska. Maybe so but the jacka** didn't seem to recognize the fact that at that point, they were still on the outskirts of the hurricane and it was going to get much, much worse and that this wasn't the type of boat made to be used in constantly rough waters like the fishing vessels in Alaska.
@@mommy2libras you sound a lot like the captain. At the end of the day it’s still a gamble because if you know anything about hurricanes they aren’t predictable always. Once they came close enough into its path changing direction degrees has no guarantees. You don’t know if it’s going to head north/northwest/west/southwest and once you’re too close it’s too late. Their best bet was to turn around and head back to Jacksonville when they saw the wind speeds and wave height forecast they’d be heading into.
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The indifference of the captain to the risk they were facing; toxic workplace & poor safety culture; and poor ship maintenance completely wiped out any probability of surviving a category 4 hurricane. I feel terrible to those who were impacted by the captain’s decision.
That’s really messed up for the one person surviving a ship wreck, hurricane and days in the water - being spotted and waving to a rescue helicopter only to be lost again and die alone.
Imagine being on a sinking ship in the middle of a cat 3 and you still gotta call the Help Desk
The whole thing is sad but especially the part where they saw someone in the water waving at them but then couldn't find him or her when they went to fetch them.
Captain Michael Davidson made an extremely fatal move piloting his ship into Hurricane Joaquin. The fact that he had the audacity to even think about such a move just shows how big his ego is. As a result of his actions, Captain Davidson and his entire crew all lost their lives. One should never underestimate the raw power of the sea, no matter what form it comes in. Whether it be storms, rough waves, or even icebergs (see what I did there). This situation reminds me of something someone once said about the RMS Titanic, "Not even God himself could sink this ship". Now I'm pretty sure it was J. Bruce Ismay who said this. Despite the sadness surrounding this, we should also look at it as a lesson learned to not let our egos and arrogance prevent us from making proper decisions. May those who lost their live Rest In Peace and my heart goes out to their families.
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@@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197 This is literally my own words. I tend to sound like chat got because I'm a very serious person.
@@madisondean1074 ah, i see. Threw me through a loop for a sec
@@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197 It's okay! I get that a lot from people. I guess I just have a way with words sometimes.
Actually no one said that about the Titanic
Another completely avoidable tragedy. A captain with an inflated ego, & poor decision-making caused the deaths of 32 people and devastated the lives of hundreds of family and friends.
The number of disasters that are caused by one man's overconfidence is utterly disgusting...
Its morbidly funny how casual the captain is
It’s not his actual voice. These bozos are passing bad voice acting as the actual recordings. Cringe.
@@bennettwilliams7817 proof?
That one person survived in water,seen helicopter, wawing at it and then have never been found again is saddesr part.
The best part was when the captain finally realized he was in trouble, he kept getting forwarded to voice mails.
Thank you for removing the buzzsaw in the background and reuploading!
I don't know why but I love to listen to these disaster stories while studying.
How on earth do you listen to something AND study something else? I think what you meant was you like listening to these stories while you should be studying.
As I recall the captain was looking at weather data that was 3 to 5 hours old and thinking it was current, He made statements from the bridge saying the worst was behind them and the weather would only get bette, but the peak conditions wouldn’t be on them for over 2 hours.
An old, tired and barely seaworthy ship sails into a hurricane. The final results of this voyage were not surprising.
They have an eternal flame burning in Jacksonville for that ship. I used to live right next to it.
I just have to be thankful that my 13 years in the US Navy was not like this. We drill and train and drill and train until it’s automatic, it’s always about making sure the ship can fight, no corners cut, been through some crazy seas and storms but confident that the ship and crew were prepared. Seems like the commercial side of things are always about the $, which leads to disasters.
This man ego costs the entire crew
The lady said it best
Cheers from west Africa
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I know some people aren't fans of the not great voice acting by the actors for ships crew but honestly I kinda love it lol. It reminds me of back in the day watching shows like unsolved mysteries and rescue 911 😂
Rescue 911 used the actual people acting out the incident if I remember right
@@bradsanders407 i was referring to the actual skits where they act out the call with actors im not sure but ya I think the calls were regular people
Oh damn, Rescue 911!!! 😂
You took me way back with that one!!!
Right on!!! 👍✌️
Dat Capt. Had balls😎😩🙈
@@bradsanders407you remember wrong, they have professionals and experts like cave divers do the acting
That poor ship was teetering on doomed since the early 90's it seems. Captain must've thought this was his big moment to shine, gettinf his crew through a massive storm in a rust bucket. Probably thought he'd be famous for it.
He is kinda famous now...
Thanks for fixing the audio, I couldn’t watch it before! Enjoying it now!
Thanks so much for fixing the audio! I couldn't watch this before, even though I wanted to. This story is both sad and infuriating: sad for the crew lost, and infuriating because it never should have happened. Great video, with one exception: get people who can speak the lines of captain and crew in ways that don’t sound like they’re reading something boring.
Man I swear every time I hear a ship sos call they seem like really calm like they not gonna sink crazy
What the hell was the captain thinking
You’re assuming he was 😂
He was thinking if he doesn't show up on time he's going to be someone's 2nd mate.
he sounds crazy, ship literally sinking and hes like pshh we got this guys.
Himself
@@bradsanders407bloody right
Excellent video, thank you brother!
There was so much at play in this sinking, so many things had to fall into place. The second mate (Danielle) just breaks my heart, they all knew but didn’t understand why the captain didn’t. I read the report but don’t remember seeing the recommendations…..I hope there were MANY
Good ol captain down there sleeping, comes up with old info to demonstrate his superiority over his crew, is responsible for every last person's life on that ship. It was too late when he called & even then he wasn't revealing his piss poor decision-making
I must say I lived in Long island Bahamas at the time of Hurricane Joaquin and I remember even before hearing about this vessel having had sunk we were finding personal items of the crews. From clothing to shoes and things from the containers having come open. When we saw those things we knew what had happened 😢😢
They put him on f***ing HOLD?!?!
I think there should be 3 'captains' on board a ship. This would ensure that any decisions which concern the safety of the ship are not in the hands of one man. Look what can happen when one ego-driven captain is in charge!!
True.
Captain sound like a right tool ....shouldn't have been in charge. The 2nd mate should have the power to disregard the captain in these situations.
She could have radioed HQ and they would have given her permission.
@@bradsanders407 yeah you'd think they would have something in place for this event where the captain's ego is insane and putting people in danger
The Chief Engineer has the power to override the Captain with the assistance of the Chief Mate
Liferaft
We were on a cruise in the same area a week before they sank. Calmest water we had ever seen. Avoidable tragedy given today's weather information.
I worked on this ship. It was getting maintenance at the dock in Mobile, AL before it left for sea . I did not want to get off this ship is the crazy part. I think i still have my old discharge papers
A suggestion: perhaps the Coast Guard(s) should have the authority to deny transit in certain areas in times of severe weather
First time watching a non-Titanic ship disaster video. I never imagined that such giants could sink.
Previous members of the crew said this ship was a rust bucket and it should not have been on the water. After it sank, the NTSB inspected the sister ship, SS El Yunque, and discovered that the hold ventilators were rusted through and that seawater could fill the holds when the ship had a list over 15 degrees in rolling seas of 25-30 feet, exactly the list reported by El Faro, and exactly the sea state predicted by the NWS.. Had the ship been seaworthy, a crappy captain could have weathered the storm... But this ship was a reported leaker: there were visible holes rusted through the deck, previous crew members said there were chronic sea water incursions in the galley, the sea water fire system was rusting out, and the pumps didn't work half the time.
That captain was not communicating as he should with his crew. He was just his own Boss and no one had the adosety to tell him what to do cause this devastated disaster.
Absolutely sensational narration of this preventable disaster.
That was a suicide voyage for sure
What the captain clearly needed was some clever and loyal staff to counter the misinformation and disinformation amongst some of the crew about the stormy weather outside the ship.
Canada; Red Sky at night sailor’s delight, red sky in morning sailor’s warning.
Right before devastating hurricanes hit here iin louisiana, its so calm. Eerily calm
I CANT BELIEVE THAT THE CREWS CHAIN OF COMMAND LOYALTY WAS MORE IMPORTANT, THAN THEIR Sense OF SURVIVAL AND RESPECT FOR ALL THE SOULS ( LABORERS ) ON SHIP. CREWS ON SHIPS HAVE COMMITED MUTINY FOR LESS...
My heart sunk when I heard of the sinking. Kept praying survivors would be found.
Love ur vids m8!
Thank you for updating the music for the video, the prior music was unfortunately quite distracting. Now I can focus more on the story 😊
I read this story in a book. Very good read. My take away was this. Never put your life into the hands of someone else. Getting fired, or ridiculed, is a much better result then being dead. Which is what happened to everyone on this ship, because they didn’t want to go against the captain. Even though they knew they were right and he was wrong. Still did it his way. Stupid.
he didn't figure on the engineer not filling the oil, or crewmen who didn't properly secure hatches. By the way, where was the 1st mate? Several other ships rode the storm out. What a scab operation. Had they survived, their careers would have been over. At the very least!
Ex USCG
@@crankychris2 What seasoned cargo captain uses outdated weather data?? Then disappears for 8 hours?? While the crew in the wheelhouse was using current weather data. I agree there was bad communication, between crew and captain and there was a scuttle left open, but according to the Marine Accident Report, the reason the engines died, is because of the captain’s decision to steer head on into the hurricane.
Verry good job on story. I ebmnjoyed the work put into telling it. GreAt job sad story
The Chief Mate and Second Mate should have explained to crew that their lives were in danger and why then have them remove the captain from the bridge so that so those two could take full control and sail everyone to safety. Better to lose your job than lose your life.
This story still terrifies me every time I watch or read a story about this 100% avoidable situation and senseless deaths.
A good captain is able to recognise their mistakes and admit they were wrong. Then be able to rectify them.
captain "sure its all fine" type
Reminds me of that movie. The perfect storm
I wish we have had the real radio transmission audio.
Lmao at captain risking his whole ship then having to work through a phone tree
I blame the company. These companies and corporations will not tolerate anything that puts you behind schedule. They tell you safety first but the truth is when you slow down to do something safe you get reprimanded. I've seen this before. If he had been late to take the safe route he would have put his job at risk. He gets the blame but there is more to it than simply making a poor decision.
lol, I would’ve been screaming at the on shore personnel .. even in literal life threatening emergencies, bureaucracy and protocol still forces you to play the telephone game with operators
The Coast Guard inspects ships and deems them unsafe then the companies find loopholes to keep them at sea making them money. The captain definitely holds a great deal of blame in this tragedy but the ship itself should have been scrapped a decade before it even happened.
Th engineer didn't check the oil, the crew didn't secure the hatches, there was a lot more than just bad decisions by a job scared captain.
Astutely honest analysis
A ship captain deciding to sail during a storm. Reminds me of the capsizing of MV Princess of the Stars in 2008.
Sad that someone was alive waving 24 hours after it sunk and coastguard lost them. To think after all that time your going to get saved only to watch the coastguard flying around and then leaving without them.
Its always the big boat captains with egos like that. Such a horrible lapse in judgment. RIP
Wow 😮😳. The massive ego and not just wanting to admit defeat .
Wow the triangle is so dangerous.
A classic case of thinking we have perfect knowledge of what's coming and can cut margins of error to the bone.
Brick Immorter has a great in depth video on this tragedy 🎭
Those audio recordings sound straight out of a video game like Bioshock, to let a player know what happened after a disaster
I worked in Alaska for years. They have many people like this Captain in Alaska . Reason why so many accidents in Alaska.
Such a sad story.
imagine if he had competence backing up his confidence - he would have been a legend
All those poor souls.
So how did they see a man in a suit alive and then when they got there he was gone ???
3:03 sounds just like zapp braningan "now thats an route with some hairy chest"
I worked on this RoRo Ship when it was the Northern Lights. Loading & unLoading containers. Before that sailed as Merchant Marine to Alaska. I was truly sad when it sunk. Tote's repair records are bad.
Insane to sail to hurricane! That captain was mental!
The Captain committed suicide and took everyone with him.
My uncle worked offshore for 40 years until 2019 fell through a platform never found his body & 2 others from diff companies also had the same problem within weeks