A pro journalist would recognize the difference between reportage and editorializing. Stating that the yacht “crashes into” the ferry, is not reportage, it is editorializing.
The El Faro debate is orbiting around a great deal of editorializing by many people, each with a great deal of knowledge about a very small part of the subject and strong feelings about why it happened and how a repeat might be prevented.
For many readers and contributors here, this is an emotional issue more than a technical one. Which brings us back to:
We will NEVER KNOW why the captain made such a completely iratiobal descision. NEVER and all the trying to find out is a waste.
Humans are not now nor will be ever be completely rational. Expecting anyone to be rational is irrational itself. How can anyone, even the master himself, ever know what really lead to his multiple decisions to maintain course. The roots of this disaster are not like a carrot with one large and juicy core, they are more like one of those fairy ring mushroom things, there are thousands of little roots spreading far wider than any of us can see as a single entity.
There is no smoking gun in this matter. I applaud your demand to shine a light on the shipyards, the ACS system, and the internal politics that may have been among the most significant of all the failed devices intended to prevent the disaster. I don’t see much chance of that happening though, like the fairy ring, the system (the process?) is configured so that it survives the damage caused by bright light to any single one of its parts.