Ghost ship liveaboards

Gutter press ..what a load of rubbish.She couldn't possibly be still afloat and not sighted for 12 months.She was last sighted in Feb 2013 1,500 miles off Ireland and one of her EPIRB's went off in March 2013 700 miles off Kerry which suggests she sunk.She would have washed up months ago or been sighted if still afloat.
 
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In the late 1800's the Navy sent a ship (or ships) out to sink derelicts in the Atlantic as they were posing a real threat to shipping. I can't find the reference anymore but some were thought to be bobbing about for a long time, mostly wood back then of course. If she is water tight, or reasonable so, perhaps battened down, welded shut, then it is entirely reasonable that she could still be afloat. In one of the references from the other post in this forum (Scutbut), a ship size response was picked up by another vessel's radar long after the liferaft EPIRBs were activated. Shipping sticks to known routes, so by default she is likely not be floating along those routes and as such not likely to be spotted. Satellite time is expensive, so no one is going to pay to search for a heap of scrap.

I think she is still afloat, which is just as accurate as she must have sunk by now. More worryingly this is how a zombie apocalypse starts, ghost ships, plague infested cannibal rats. I would be very worried.
 
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Mad Pad said:
How could it possibly not have been sighted in the last year..YAWN..
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I recently finished reading a book about the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo.
Abandoned in ice in 1931. There have been various sightings over the years, both in pack ice and floating in open water with various attempts to recover her cargo.
Last sighting was in 1969.
 
Eyore said:
Wonder what "Belgian based searcher Pim de Roodes" does for a living when he is not dreaming about searching for ship loads of cannibal rats.:rolleyes:
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It seems 'salvage' is what the man does for a living.

http://www.seatec.be/whoweare.html

Think it must have been a 'slow news day' for there has been nothing to report on this vessel since last March.

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if there's no food onboard for the rats other than other rats, how long can a colony survive. A population that can breed enough food to maintain it's self sounds a bit like perpetual motion to me
 
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