Hurricane Joaquin

... games in the Carolinas with horrific weather.

You know, I, I noted, [clears throat] as I was sitting there, that that game on Saturday was actually 11 years to the day of that bring your own guts game down in Clemson, where i- it's rained the entire 48 hours I was there, thanks to Hurricane Joaquin.

Um, there's been some other ones too.

So there's that game in 2015, both of Notre Dame's most recent trips to NC State.

The ship left Jacksonville, Florida for Puerto Rico, intending to avoid a tropical storm.

However, the storm intensified into Hurricane Joaquin with winds of 90 mph and waves up to 40 feet.

The ship's last communication indicated it was losing power and taking on water.

After weeks of searching, the SS El Faro was found in one piece, sitting upright 15,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

He sent an email to Davidson at 9.52 a.m., warning him of the storm's position and continued track to the southwest.

Fifteen minutes later, second mate Danielle Randolph emailed her mother, writing, As concerns on El Faro were intensifying, so was Hurricane Joaquin.

The National Hurricane Center issued another advisory at 10.53 a.m., warning of sustained wind speeds of up to 80 mph and gusts up to 98 mph, and the storm was now 330 nautical miles southeast of El Faro.

This advisory was received by El Faro's SAT-C, but as of yet, no further course changes were ordered.

As this was another supplementary advisory, El Faro did not receive it, and would not learn of the upgraded storm status until two and a half hours later when they heard it on the radio broadcast.

Third mate Jeremy Ream was correct.

Hurricane Joaquin was far stronger than what their data was indicating.

Armed with this new information, the third mate spoke to Davidson on the phone at 11.13 p.m., telling him, at 0400 we'll be 22 miles from the center, with max 100 mph winds with gusts to 120 and strengthening.

You learn the most from...

the bad experiences or not so good, you know, like the toxic environments, and I know we can talk about that later, the dawn raids and like the FBI that I saw, like all these little things, or even which was really sad and terrible in 2015 in one of the companies in Hurricane Joaquin, we had a ship go down with 33 people on board.

And you learn so much from that, from the process, how people respond, what do you do? You see the ugly side of media and how they do everything for clicks while you're watching and they're tweeting at the same time, you know, completely the other side of the story, how do you want to say? So communication is, and transparency is like one of the most important things in life.

You learn a lot, you know, and I think school doesn't give you just that.

But get a third party to actually do it.

That is completely different, you know, and I chose company that knows crises very well.

They were helping us during the time when during Hurricane Joaquin, when we lost the ship, they were they were helping us through the process.

So they know crisis mostly from the maritime perspective very well, but they are able to help with any kind of tabletop exercise.

For folks that remember back in 2015, that was going into another strong El Nino event.

We had Hurricane Joaquin that formed in that region.

It did not have a direct impact in the Carolinas, but we saw moisture from that system seed in and produce some very heavy rain.

So we're not out of the woods just yet.