INTERNATIONAL NEWS - The U.S. Coast Guard is no longer searching for the missing cargo ship El Faro but focusing on any signs of survivors.
Searchers have found life rafts and survival suits, including one survival suit with human remains, Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor said Monday. The body inside the survival suit was unidentifiable, he said.
The U.S. Coast Guard believes the missing cargo ship El Faro sank, an agency spokesman told CNN. The search for the 33 people aboard continues, the Coast Guard said. Contact with El Faro was lost on Thursday.
The massive search for a container ship in the Caribbean Sea has yielded a 225-square-mile debris field, but no sign of the ship itself.
The vessel was carrying a crew of 28 Americans and five Polish nationals when it went missing near the Bahamas last week as Hurricane Joaquin, with winds blowing at 130 mph, passed over the archipelago.
El Faro, based in Jacksonville, Florida, was headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
