Thread: El Faro Sinking
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Old 10-07-2015, 01:13 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by sbu22 View Post
Steve - no expertise here, but I am guessing that the engineering department for a merchant steam plant demands more crew than a newer diesel based system. They also had 4-5 Polish riders performing some sort of underway engineering repairs/improvements. I think the ship's crew was 29 people.
Yes, it will be interesting to find out exactly what the Polish group was doing in the ER.
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