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Goner. all 33 crew members were lost that day as the 700 foot ship sank to the bottom of the atlantic. 15,000 feet down to the ocean floor. the national transportation safety board revealing many details, summarizing a transcript of the last 26 hours of audio recorded on the bridge. >> 7:29 a.m., second mate explained there were containers in the water and the captain gave the command to ring the abandon ship alarm which was then heard on the recording. about 7:31:00 a.m., the captain relayed over the radio to put life rafts in the water. the audio recording ended about 7:40 a.m. with the capt...

A fox news alert and a story we followed closely happening now. federal investigators released 500 pages of an audio recording recovered from el faro, the cargo ship that sunk in the awful hurricane. in the transcripts, crew members urged the captain to change course. as we all know, he did not do that. all 33, including the captain, perished in the disaster. phil keating is live in miami with more on what we are learning. >> reporter: remember, hurricane joaquin was a powerful category 3 hurricane barreling through the eastern bahamas when inside the el faro bridge, a growing and haunting sen...

Be with them. by night and day. for merchant mariners we pray. >> families and communities not giving up hope as coast guard crews continue their desperate search for survivors of the missing cargo ship el faro that is presumed to have sunk. new debris surfacing in the caribbean overnight. an update on the investigation in a moment but first we are learning more this morning about some of those missing. these seven crew members and 26 others were aboard. they road that ship right into a hurricane and among the missing, 34-year-old daniel rudolph. a second mate. she emailed her mom ahead of the...

Families and communities not giving up hope as coast guard crews continued their desperate search for survivors of the cargo ship alfaro has presumed to have sunk. >> be with them by night and day for mariners, we pray. >> the vigil held last night at the same school where four of the missing crew members on board studied. >> this isn't a memorial for anyone because they're still out there. >> this is for the community to keep that hope, to show that, you know, we're rooting for them and that they're going to get home safe. >> so people still staying optimistic even though it's been almost a w...

The big question is with a potential hurricane brewing, why did "el faro" go on with the route? let's ask james staples who is a mariti maritime expert and captain. why would anyone decide to do that and how can you defend this? >> well, that is a good question, ashleigh, and why would you sail into weather with a good prediction on it. and the e-mail from the second mate that she said that they were sailing into the known category 3 hurricane, and it is perpl perplexing, and i don't know why you would take a ship into that situation. i don't know what the captain