US investigators are focusing on questions of stability and decisionmaking ahead of heavy weather in a multi-day public hearing over the El Faro tragedy.
Questions in the continuing hearing by the US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation focused on why the ro-ro’s master chose the most direct route to Puerto Rico despite the presence of the storm, shipmanagement oversight among TOTE Maritime’s daughter companies and the unique stability characteristics of the four-decades old vessel, among a host of other topics.
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