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Peter Mims, the American sailor who went missing from the U.S.S. Shiloh last week, has been found safe on board the ship An American sailor who was presumed dead following a huge man-overboard search has been found alive after he was discovered to have been hiding in his own ship's engine room for a week.
They know how to survive in the water, Fedor said of the crew. Those are challenging conditions to survive.. Related: New Search for Ship Lost Off Bahamas in Hurricane Joaquin. The El Faro departed from Jacksonville, Florida, on Sept. 29, when Joaquin was still a tropical storm.The ship was heading to Puerto Rico on a regular cargo supply run when it ran into trouble. imagine the Coast Guard would have been keeping an eye on that ship.. advertisement. But for El Faro to go dark, there would need to have been a catastrophic incident for the ship to either lose power and â as the Coast Guard believes â sink some 15,000 feet in the heavy seas.