The Latest: Crew felt 'eerie calm' crossing El Faro debris

The captain of the sister ship to the freighter El Faro that sank last year described an "eerie calm" as his ship travelled through the sunken vessel's debris field.

Loftfield said he was at sea when the El Faro disappeared and that there was a "pull and desire" to see if they could help with rescue operations.

Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane.

[...] Mate Charles Baird testified Thursday before a U.S. Coast Guard panel investigating the ship's sinking last October.