Interview With El Faro Author Rachel Slade – gCaptain

That’s why this story is so fascinating—because no one entity is solely to blame. But what we did learn in this tragedy is that few people involved seemed fully capable of performing their jobs correctly—from the third-party inspector who failed to replace the battery in the VDR, to the captain of the ship who didn’t understand the shortcomings of his forecasting software, to the technician at BVS who accidentally sent the previous weather package six hours later, to the person on El Faro who left the scuttle open. I could go on—the list of bad decisions and mistakes is impressive.