(ICYMI) Georgia Man ID'd As Crew Member on Ill-Fated Cargo Ship

A Georgia man has been identified as one of the 33 crew members of the missing cargo ship El Faro, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Sylvester Crawford Jr. of Lawrenceville was on the crew list released by the Coast Guard Wednesday in an announcement saying it was suspending the search for survivors.

The 790-foot El Faro is believed to have sunk during Hurricane Joaquin off the Bahamian coast last week. The Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force and Air National Guard had searched 183,000 square nautical miles before Wednesday’s announcement.

“I have come to a very difficult decision to suspend the search for the crew of the El Faro at sunset tonight. My deepest condolences go to the families, loved ones, and friends of the El Faro crew,” Rear Adm. Scott Buschman, commander of the Coast Guard 7th District, said in a news release. “U.S. Coast Guard, U.S Navy, U.S. Air Force, and the Tote Maritime tug crews searched day and night, sometimes in perilous conditions with the hope of finding survivors in this tragic loss”

The Coast Guard was first alerted around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1 when the ship reported being disabled in the path of the storm. It had lost propulsion and had a 15-degree list, the Coast Guard said. The ship was headed from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Searchers found a deceased person in a survival suit Sunday night; a heavily damaged lifeboat believed to be from the El Faro also was found. A partially submerged life raft, survival suit, life jackets, life rings, cargo containers, styrofoam, packaged food and an oil sheen also were found earlier in the search since Thursday.

Crew of the SS El Faro as provided by Tote Maritime

(From Coast Guard news release)

• Louis Champa, Palm Coast, Florida
• Roosevelt Clark, Jacksonville, Florida
• Sylvester Crawford Jr., Lawrenceville, Georgia
• Michael Davidson, Windham, Maine
• Brookie Davis, Jacksonville, Florida
• Keith Griffin, Fort Myers, Florida
• Frank Hamm, Jacksonville, Florida
• Joe Hargrove, Orange Park, Florida
• Carey Hatch, Jacksonville, Florida
• Michael Holland, North Wilton, Maine
• Jack Jackson, Jacksonville, Florida
• Jackie Jones, Jr., Jacksonville, Florida
• Lonnie Jordan, Jacksonville, Florida
• Piotr Krause, Poland
• Mitchell Kuflik, Brooklyn, New York
• Roan Lightfoot, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
• Jeffrey Mathias, Kingston, Massachusetts
• Dylan Meklin, Rockland, Maine
• Marcin Nita, Poland
• Jan Podgorski, Poland
• James Porter, Jacksonville, Florida
• Richard Pusatere, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Theodore Quammie, Jacksonville, Florida
• Danielle Randolph, Rockland, Maine
• Jeremie Riehm, Camden, Delaware
• Lashawn Rivera, Jacksonville, Florida
• Howard Schoenly, Cape Coral, Florida
• Steven Shultz, Roan Mountain, Tennessee
• German Solar-Cortes, Orlando, Florida
• Anthony Thomas, Jacksonville, Florida
• Andrzej Truszkowski, Poland
• Mariette Wright, St. Augustine, Florida
• Rafal Zdobych, Poland