In 2015, the cargo ship El Faro departed Jacksonville for Puerto Rico while a tropical storm was developing along its route.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro told a colleague just before the ship's final voyage that he was aware of a storm brewing at sea, but that he had a plan to go ...

It was 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2015, and the Atlantic was boiling over. El Faro, sailing near San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, was being knocked about by the strongest October storm to hit these ...

In 2015, the El Faro set course into Hurricane Joaquin—and never returned. What followed was one of the deadliest maritime disasters in modern U.S. history, sparked by a decision that defied logic.

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