Posted on 01/23/2014 6:12:26 PM PST by Lorianne
According to “experts,” a 1,565-ton cruise liner carrying disease-ridden rats is out there, somewhere, and could very well be headed for Britain.
The ship, which went missing a year ago, has presumably been drifting across the North Atlantic ever since. The Independent‘s account of what happened next is based in some true facts, and then fluffed up with a lot of conjecture. Here’s what appears to be going on:
Not made-up: ghost ships. That’s just the term used for ships with no living crew aboard, and according to Quartz, they’re not that rare — sailors have spotted at least seven such ships in the past 15 years.
It’s possible that this specific ghost ship, the Lyubov Orlova, sank — which would pose environmental problems of its own. But its lifeboats are designed to send off signals when they make contact with the water. Only two such signals have been received, presumably from lifeboats that fell off the ship’s side. The rest haven’t been heard from; ergo, the ship may very well still be out there.
Also not made-up: Canada did it. The Lyubov Orlova was seized by Canadian authorities after its owners racked up $250,000 in unpaid debts. En route to being sold for scrap in the Dominican Republic in January 2013, a storm snapped her tow line. Transport Canada decided not to pursue the ship, declaring that it “no longer poses a threat to the safety of [Canadian] offshore oil installations, their personnel or the marine environment.”
Also not made-up, probably: cannibal rats. “Experts” believe the ship could still contain hundreds of rats, which naturally would only have been able to survive this long by feeding off one another. “There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other,” Belgian salvage hunter Pim de Rhoodes explained.
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Correct. The U.S. Navy Hydrologic service was in charge of keeping track of them, and there were THOUSANDS of drifting and derelict hulks floating around the. North Atlantic.
Can you provide a link to that article on BBC News and global warming? Thanks
Whenever a derelict was located, it was declared a `menace to navigation’ & dispatched to Davy Jones. If the Navy participated in rescuing passengers/crew from a burning ship at sea, they made sure it was sent to the bottom as the final act.
If collision with that Russian hulk results in loss of life, the Canadian government will be sued to a fare thee well.
Fixer-upper ;’)
You can see the Lyubov Orlova perform the song at the conclusion of the movie by clicking here.
Climate change cooling will probably kill all the rats and the media will have to go to rehab...
An allegory of Western Civilization.
Oh you should apologize now to Gilligan and his crew.
Aren’t those rats just eating each other?
Then what’s the problem?
That’s free,
Three shots.
It would take too many Lund boats and walleye lures to sink her.
Check an early episode of “The X-Files”. That ship was in it. Had the “oil” in the surviving crew member.
Yesiree!
“Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.”
Some creative writer could do a wonderful story on this from the rats perspective. Heck it might even make a wonderful network sitcom. “Just the 16,000 of Us”
A few well placed 3 inch HE rounds would be much cheaper, and just as effective.
Interesting. I’ll have to look for that one.
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