Posted on 08/13/2009 1:20:00 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding a missing merchant ship deepened Thursday with the vessel's operator suggesting piracy and maritime experts suspecting foul play or even a secret cargo.
The Kremlin ordered Russian warships to join the hunt for the 4,000-tonne, 98-meter bulk carrier Arctic Sea, whose fate has baffled maritime authorities across Europe and North Africa.
The Maltese-registered vessel, carrying a $1.3-million cargo of timber, was supposed to have docked on August 4 in the Algerian port of Bejaia. It never arrived and is thought to have last made contact from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France.
Mikhail Boytenko, editor of Russia's respected Sovfracht maritime journal, said that the ship may have been carrying a secret cargo unknown to the vessel's owners or operators.
"I think there was probably some sort of secret cargo on this vessel, not criminal but secret, and a third party of some sort did not want the cargo to get to another party so this highly sophisticated operation was cooked up," he told Reuters.
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Nope it was re flaged and painted it is in port in Iran off loading nukleair shit
Sounds about right.
Could also be some technology was heading somewhere that Israel or we didn’t want it to go. Perfect for special ops work, but again, that is only speculation on my part.
Fox Mulder, call your office.
I'm sloving it... *\;-)
After all, Russia is a Slovic country.
Hehe.
The ship was nowhere near The Bermuda Triangle, so there goes my theory.
Mulder and Scully once encountered a ship in the Norwegian Sea which quickly rusted away to nothing, despite being new. Eventually, if I recall correctly, the problem was traced to either a geographically oriented loop in time, or an intensely magnetic meteorite sitting on the bottom of the ocean. Maybe the same thing happened to the Russians. :-)
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