3 more El Faro crewmember families settle with vessel owner
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Three more families of crewmembers lost when the freighter El Faro sank last year have reached financial settlements with the company that owned the vessel.
The Florida Times-Union reports (http://bit.ly/20TgWFR ) that papers filed in federal court on Tuesday show that representatives for crewmembers Frank Hamm III, James Phillip Porter Jr. and Roosevelt Lazarra Clark each settled for $500,000 with Tote Services, Inc.
The newspaper says settlements have now been reached in 21 out of the 33 mariners who died Oct. 1 when the ship lost propulsion and was caught in Hurricane Joaquin. The El Faro was travelling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Jacksonville.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the sinking, and is scheduled to attempt to retrieve the ship's voyage data recorder sometime later this year.