Navy, NTSB Confirm: Wreckage Is El Faro

On Saturday, the US Navy found what it believed to be the wreckage of the El Faro cargo ship that went missing in Hurricane Joaquin last month; on Monday, that news transitioned to proof positive, per a Navy spokesman, CNN reports. The affirmative identification was confirmed by the National Transportation Safety Board on Twitter, the AP adds. Crew on the USNS Apache had been working since Sunday to positively identify the cargo ship, using a special CURV-21 submarine equipped with recording equipment. Next on the sub's to-do list: find the El Faro's data recorder, CNN notes. (Meanwhile, the ship's owner says the wreck wasn't its fault.)