Possible remains from missing El Faro ship wash ashore

Sunday, October 25, 2015, 6:05 PM - Members of the U.S. Navy are searching for the “black box” data recorder aboard missing cargo ship El Faro just days after possible debris from the vessel washed ashore in the Bahamas.

Items that might have belonged to El Faro have drifted onto the islands of Great Exuma and San Salvador for one week, including containers of body wash, deodorant, shaving cream, and tennis shoes.

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In the meantime, Navy search team members will be using a “towed pinger locator” to find the recorder on board the vessel. The locator is an instrument specifically designed to detect “black boxes” on board ships that have gone down.

The U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board has yet to confirm whether any of the debris has come from El Faro.

El Faro went missing in early October after departing from Jacksonville, Fla., and getting swept up in then-Category 3 Hurricane Joaquin. The ship’s 33 crew members are all presumed dead.

The search team suspects they’ll have approximately one week to locate the recorder before its batteries stop transmitting signals, CNN reports.

Members arrived at the 100-square-mile search zone northeast of Crooked Island in the Bahamas, Friday.

El Faro was en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico on a weekly cargo run when it encountered former-Hurricane Joaquin.

Twenty-eight Americans and five Polish crew members were on board.

SOURCES: CNN