and I also know the Mexican ship indicated that they lost power (which might have also impacted communications) but whatever was escorting it could have (or may have) alerted others in the area...
Here in Philly, both our rivers - the Delaware and Schuylkill (the southern part of it when it is in the city) are tidal. As I noted upthread, we had a regatta here on the smaller Schuylkill and they cancelled the final day due to the currents issue and knowing that same storm was up there, they could have delayed it.
I used to work in a federal building near the Delaware river and could watch all the container ships going up and down it with tugs pushing/pulling/guiding. There are tugs that are pretty powerful out there. We had the "Marco Polo" container ship pull into Philly's port last year and that is 4 times the size (1300 ft long) and had 4 tugs on it -
Agree that this was tragic.
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