so far, no word that any survivor has been found. overall, they have searched an area oo that s bigger than the state of california but now they re focusing in on two debris fields where they found some rescue equipment in the last day or so. hoping to find survivors but again, no such luck. families here are waiting for word. they get daily briefings and they veal a briefing tonight from the ntsb, as well. to remind the viewers, one body found wearing some kind of lifesaving kind of suit, right in there is a chance someone s throughout in a rescue suit. reporter: yeah. they found one suit with a remains inside. they found another suit with no evidence of anyone being inside. they also found a rescue boat that was smashed. they found a raft. they have found life vests and life rings. nobody attached. that s all considered bad news to be honest with you by the coast guard because you would
so what we ve done with our search is we first started, we were looking for the ship. we searched an area basically the size of california. yesterday, we reduced that search down to two main debris fields. those areas are basically the size of a larger city and a smaller city. we ve really focused in on survivors. all we ve been able to locate is we ve recovered five life rings, a personal flotation device and we also sighted two survival suits, a deflated life raft and a damaged life boat which you have seen the video of. you spotted those two survival suits. as we understand, one of them had a body in it. if someone was we understand there were enough life suits on board for every one of those crew members. if someone were able to have donned a life suit and did go overboard, could they have survived this hurricane?
emmett lifeboaempty lifeboat, d life rings and two survival suits they found the body of one on board but they are still looking for the 32 others trying to find any sign someone could be out there and alive. at the same time you have all of these families who have wait forward days for word and some of them are starting to ask very tough questions about why this ship was ever in the path of this storm. i don t think that they should have shipped them out when they knew that that was going on. that makes no sense to me at all. like, if they knew that the hurricane was coming they should have kept them there and waited and to ship them back out. that makes no sense at all. i don t agree with that. a lot of emotions here and obviously the primary focus is on finding survivors. as time tix on there are more concerns about finding people alive. we know the ntsb has deployed their team to jacksonville.
at sea. the coast guard also announcing that the focus of this search has now been on survivors. now a search and rescue no longer looking for that vessel. also saying that in their search yesterday they were able to find life boats, life rings, life jackets along with other shipping containers. they were also able to pull a survival suit that the coast guard said contained human remains but were unidentifiable. their focus was not necessarily on getting the remains but on finding possible survivors out there, especially with the ship sinking they believe on thursday. the hope is that the crew, the 33 members on their abandoned ship but keep in mind this is the a the height of category 4 hurricane joaquin. 5 50-foot seas. as you are hearing this press conference here, what are the
floatable survival suit. they have found two pieces of cargo over hundreds of square miles and one of the life rings. conclusion four days after the el faro was listing 15 degrees that is sank in the eastern bahamas. they would have abandoned ship in a category 4 hurricane. seas up wards of 50 feet and visibility at 0. but still family members of the 28 americans and five polish workers are hoping they manageed to get in the lifeboat and somehow it is out there bobbing in the eastern bahamas. and the depth of the ocean is 15000 feet deep and meaning that the ship will never be spotted by the air. wow, we ll talk to them about