“I really don’t want to speak on someone else’s family’s father,” she said. Rather than blame the captain, Katie Griffin, 35, expressed sympathy with his family over their shared grief. Their families did not respond to messages left requesting comment on Sunday. Three other crew members were graduates of the Maine Maritime Academy and lived in that state: Danielle Randolph and Dylan Meklin, both of Rockland, and Michael Holland of Wilson.Īlso on board were Mariette Wright, whose mother, Mary Shevory, lives in Brockton, and Jeff Mathias, of Kingston, who also graduated from Mass. Relatives of Davidson, a Maine Maritime Academy graduate who lived in Windham, Maine, could not be reached on Sunday.
If Davidson had survived, he said, “we would have pursued a negligence complaint against his merchant marine credential,” according to a video of the briefing. On its final voyage, El Faro was traveling from Florida to Puerto Rico, when Davidson guided it near the erratic path of Hurricane Joaquin, then a Category 3 storm.ĭavidson “misjudged the path of Hurricane Joaquin and overestimated the vessel’s heavy-weather survivability, while also failing to take adequate precautions to monitor and prepare for heavy weather,” Coast Guard Captain Jason Neubauer, chairman of the El Faro Marine Board of Investigation, said a press briefing in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday.
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