NTSB Set to Resume Search For Sunken El Faro Vessel's Data Recorder

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The National Transportation Safety Board plans to resume a search for the vessel data recorder of the sunken El Faro cargo ship this week.

El Faro sank during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1. All 33 crew members -- including Frank Hamm, who's family in Baltimore held out hope for weeks -- died.

While the ship's remains have already been found to be at rest on the ocean floor near the Bahamas, a new search is to retrieve the data recorder and better document the wreckage to help determine exactly why and how the ship sank, according to a NTSB news release.

The recorder is expected to contain voice data from the El Faro's navigation bridge in the hours before the ship sank.

The Atlantis research vessel is scheduled to depart from Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, and search the accident site for 10 days before returning to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, around May 5.

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