This was supported by the ship’s second officer, Khalid Mamdough Ahmed, whose job it was to chart the course into the port – claiming no changes had been made.[14] Cairo’s state-owned radio quoted Samatour officials as saying the ship had veered off course in bad weather and that attempts had been made, apparently unsuccessfully, to warn it.[15] Egyptian investigators said they had received no reports that the Salem Express deviated from its schedule. [16]