Search resumes for ship missing off Bahamas in Hurricane Joaquin

An intensive search has resumed in the south-eastern Bahamas for a US cargo ship with 33 people on board that has not been heard from since it lost power and was taking on water as it was battered in fierce seas churned up by Hurricane Joaquin.

US Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force planes and helicopters were expected to spend the day looking for the ship across a broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean around Crooked Island, which the ship, the 790-foot El Faro, was passing as the storm turned into a powerful Category 4 hurricane.