give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they re up against really nasty storm, they re up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. you re familiar with the ocean. you re an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn t 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there s nowhere to run in this
give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they re up against really nasty storm, they re up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. you re familiar with the ocean. you re an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn t 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there s nowhere to run in this
that s our hope, tomorrow morning at first sunrise, we ll have more aircraft out there searching. and you re confident in the right area? we re confident we re several searching in the right area. we are using the last known position the last time they communicated with their shipping agent. we know they are disabled so we know they are moving along with the force of the storm so we know we are in the general area. captain fedor, thank you very much. we hope tomorrow morning you have very good news for those families and men stranded on board. meteorologist jennifer gray is outfront. you heard captain fedor talk about 20 to 30 feet of waves this crew could be enduring if they are indeed on life rafts if they are in the water. what could the conditions be like? it was downgraded to a category 3 today. they ve been in category 4 conditions and not only for the
missing people on the vessel but also what the captain was just saying what they are having to go through to search. these are very dangerous conditions. winds of 130, 135-mile-per-hour sustained winds with gusts up to 150. so very dangerous conditions and also the waves of 25 to 30 feet and depending on exactly where they were, they could have been right around the eye wall of that storm, the strongest portion of that storm for a very long time. the storm has been sitting right on top of the bahamas for more than 36 hours. and so it has been battering the islands, especially the central portions of the bahamas right at their last known position. erin? and as captain fedor said and you just alluded to it, they would have had to endured this for such a long period of time. he s hoping to establish contact with them tomorrow morning, hoping that they are alive and the weather will be better then. when do you think the weather will start to improve? well, hopefully they are