BVS was at the origin of the ‘El Faro’ disaster.
Not the program itself, it is what it is, but the exclusive use of it, discarding all other info arrived on the bridge, especially the Navtex/Sat-C weather.
The afternoon before the sinking, the crew knew perfectly that they were on a collision course with the hurricane’s center, but BVS did not…
There are no ‘models’ needed to preview the path of a highly volatile hurricane for the next six hours. Today, all real weather data is available in quasi real-time, models could only distort the obvious finding that the hurricane goes South… as did BVS.
AS for the longer term models, only ECMWF had ‘Joaquin’ right over days…