Shipboard access to up-to-date weather forecasting data amid a hurricane has become a key line of inquiry in the investigation of the sinking of TOTE Maritime’s El Faro.
This week William Bennett, the Blank Rome lawyer representing the widow of the master Michael Davidson, sought to show the important role played by weather data for a vessel near a storm after it emerged that the ship received an out-of-date data package showing the track of Hurricane Joaquin.
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