Hurricane Joaquin: The Strange Case Of El Faro

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Hurricane Joaquin was just a tropical storm when the ship name El Faro was leaving Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto Rico on Thursday. As Joaquin started to get bigger and stronger El Faro started to get 30 to 35 foot waves by the time the hurricane was category 4 they had lost all type of communication, the coast guard believes the wind could have destroyed the ship’s communications equipment and lost contact with the ship. El Faro had 33 people on board 28 of them were U.S. Citizens and five from Poland. As soon as the hurricane slow down the coast guard went out with planes and helicopters to try and find something. Days passed and they didn’t find anything until Saturday when they found life rings with the name of the boat, life jackets and

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