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This April 11, 2017 photo provided by the NTSB shows investigator Brian Young at an undisclosed location. Young is the chief investigator for the NTSB into the sinking of the freighter El Faro in the Bahamas on Oct. 1, 2015. The 790- foot ship sank after losing propulsion in Hurricane Joaquin. The bodies of the 33 crew members were never found. (NTSB via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm, the widow of El Faro crew member Frank Hamm, wipes her eyes during an interview at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. After losing her husband in a maritime accident, she is pressing for what she calls Hamm Alert, a new safety system that would keep ships in port during major storms - similar to air traffic control for planes. An online petition has collected more than 11,000 signatures in support. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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Rochelle Hamm speaks during an interview at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Since her husband died after the freighter El Faro sank in a hurricane, Rochelle has been on a mission to make ships safer. Hamm says she was motivated in part by her terrified husband’s last words, which were recorded and stored on the ship’s date recorder as the vessel sank. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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Frank Hamm, a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, is shown in a framed photograph at the home of his widow, Rochelle Hamm, in Jacksonville, Fla., on March 14, 2017. As the cargo freighter went down in a hurricane on Oct. 1, 2015, the ship's data recorder captured his final words. "My feet are slipping! I’m goin’ down!” he cries after the crew is ordered to abandon ship. “I’M A GONER!” he shouts. (Courtesy Rochelle Hamm via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm holds the hard hat of her husband, Frank, at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Frank Hamm was a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, that sank in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015. All 33 crew members were killed. Hamm's helmet was found on Ormond Beach, Fla., on December 2015. The helmet, found by a couple cleaning trash off a Florida beach, washed ashore two months after he disappeared. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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This image released by the NTSB on Dec. 13, 2016, indicates the location of the El Faro on Oct. 1, 2015, at about 2 a.m., and the path of Hurricane Joaquin. The El Faro sank Oct. 1, 2015, and all 33 crew members perished in the accident. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)
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Rochelle Hamm holds the hard hat of her husband, Frank, at her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Frank Hamm was a new helmsman on the freighter El Faro, that sank in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015. All 33 crew members were killed. Hamm's helmet was found on Ormond Beach, Fla., on December 2015. The helmet, found by a couple cleaning trash off a Florida beach, washed ashore two months after he disappeared. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2017 file photo, family members of El Faro crew members stand with photographs of their loved ones during a break in a U.S. Coast Guard investigative hearing in Jacksonville, Fla. The 790-foot freighter heading from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto Rico sailed into the eye of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas on Oct. 1, 2015 and sank, killing all 33 crew members. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP, File)
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In this image made from a video released by the National Transportation Safety Board on April 26, 2016 shows the top of El Faro navigation bridge structure with missing voyage data recorder, mast and support structures at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas. Amid howling winds, blinding squalls and massive waves, the freighter El Faro and its crew struggled for survival, unaware that their course was taking them directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. All 33 crew members were killed. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)
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This March 21, 2010 photo provided by William Van Dorp shows the El Faro cargo ship docked in Baltimore. The story of the ship's final hours was reconstructed using thousands of pages of public documents, hours of testimony before the U.S. Coast Guard's investigative board and interviews with crew family members and maritime experts. The El Faro went down on Oct. 1, 2015, as it sailed in Hurricane Joaquin near San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. (Will Van Dorp via AP)
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FILE - This undated image made from a video released April 26, 2016, by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the stern of the sunken ship El Faro. Amid howling winds, blinding squalls and massive waves, the freighter El Faro and its crew struggled for survival _ unaware that their course was taking them directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. All 33 crew members were killed. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)
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In this photo taken April 1, 2017, Kevin Klinefelter, left, prepares to fry Spam on a griddle as John Dittli, right, looks on as they spend the night in a snow survey cabin near Bishop Pass in the Inyo National Forest near Bishop, Calif. Crews stay out as long as two weeks in alpine wilderness, battling the elements, skirting avalanche terrain and plodding through deep powder to gather the data, a practice that has endured even as new technology tries to gauge the state's expected water supply from snowmelt. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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In this photo taken April 1, 2017, Ann Klinefelter reviews log book entries of past snow measurements inside a snow survey cabin near Bishop Pass in the Inyo National Forest near Bishop, Calif. Crews stay out as long as two weeks in alpine wilderness, battling the elements, skirting avalanche terrain and plodding through deep powder to gather the data, a practice that has endured even as new technology tries to gauge the state's expected water supply from snowmelt. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves players pause before the start of a baseball game to honor the memory of Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez who was killed in a boating accident last year, Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks to members of the Arizona Department of Corrections' only female fire crew at the state Capitol in Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, April 11, 2017. A relatively wet spring means wildfire dangers will be much higher in Arizona's southern deserts and grasslands as they eventually dry out, leaving the state with mixed anticipation for the upcoming fire season. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks about the upcoming wildfire season at the Capitol in Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, April 11, 2017. A relatively wet spring means wildfire dangers will be much higher in Arizona's southern deserts and grasslands as they eventually dry out, leaving the state with mixed anticipation for the upcoming fire season. In the background are members of the Arizona state Department of Corrections' only female fire crew.(AP Photo/Bob Christie)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2017, file photo, St. Louis Blues head coach Mike Yeo looks on in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche, in Denver. Here comes Minnesota's first-round opponent, none other than the surging St. Louis team coached by former Wild bench boss Mike Yeo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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This photo from video by KCTV5 shows damage to the side of a building in the aftermath of a fatal explosion at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (KCTV5 via AP)
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This photo from video by KCTV5 shows damage to the side of a building in the aftermath of a fatal explosion at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (KCTV5 via AP)
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Suncoast Lakes resident Kristin Werner uses her cellphone to record a Florida Forest Service helicopter dropping water behind homes on the Silver Palm fire Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Land O' Lakes. The Silver Palm Fire burned close to homes in the Suncoast Lakes subdivision Tuesday forcing residents to use garden hoses on vegetation and roofs around their property. (Chris Urso/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
