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Sonar indicates that the wreckage believed to be the cargo ship El Faro landed upright on the ocean floor, which may aid efforts to recover the ship's voyage data recorder. But the ship is too deep to be recovered.
The captain of the El Faro planned to bypass Hurricane Joaquin, but some kind of mechanical failure left the U.S. container ship with 33 people aboard helplessly -- and tragically --?? adrift in the path of the storm, the vessel's owners say.