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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, Charles Baird, former second mate of the El Faro, left, and Mike Kucharski with the National Transportation Safety Board discuss route options available to the El Faro when dealing with the approaching hurricane during a hearing investigating the ship's sinking in October 2015 in Jacksonville, Fla. Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane, according to testimony given by Baird Thursday. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, Charles Baird, former second mate of the El Faro, left, and Mike Kucharski with the National Transportation Safety Board discuss route options available to the El Faro when dealing with the approaching hurricane during a hearing investigating the ship's sinking in October 2015 in Jacksonville, Fla. Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane, according to testimony given by Baird Thursday. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

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