What I wonder about this whole thing is that the hurricane was known as slow moving and/or stationary
for a while, it wasn,t a storm which just sprung up !!! Why the El Faro then did not navigate through the Old Bahama channel to avoid either the storm or the bad weather around it ?
It is apparently known that she reported engine problems and a 15 degree list before loosing contact, due to fact that the last known position of the ship was close to the center of the storm and that we know that the storm moved very slow SW with the forecast to stop and reverse to the N-NE, which it did. Why then they seemingly really attempted to go through it nevertheless ?
Going North of the storm would be not good,,because of the future forecast to the N-NE so the only other option would have been south and due to fact that the Bahamas are there the only option would have been via Florida Straits into Bahama Channel (Between Cuba and southern bahama islands) I estimate it would be a day more sailing roughly.
Any thoughts?
baffles me with nowadays weather informations available to avoid such storms in the first place.
capt ted