Greek cargo ship issues distress signal with ~600 people on board

[wickedplayer494]

[url]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6a6ade946c8e41a2876676ff906a889b/cargo-ship-100s-board-issues-distress-call[/url]

[quote=Associated Press]Greek authorities say a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants has issued a distress call in bad weather northwest of the Ionian island of Corfu Tuesday.

Greek officials said a Greek frigate that was in the area and a navy helicopter are heading to the area. The ship is believed to be carrying about 600 migrants.[/quote]

[Niklasgunner]

spiegel.de says that armed men are suspected to be on board.

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE=Niklas;46820970]spiegel.de says that armed men are suspected to be on board.[/QUOTE]

I hope for the passengers sake that they don't get in the way of those who can help.

[Rainboo]

When I read Greek ship, this is always the first thing that pops into my mind. Yeah, Ancient Greece and all, but still. I played too much R:TW it seems.

[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Model_of_a_greek_trireme.jpg[/thumb]

[Riller]

[QUOTE=Rainboo;46820986]When I read Greek ship, this is always the first thing that pops into my mind. Yeah, Ancient Greece and all, but still. I played too much R:TW it seems.

[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Model_of_a_greek_trireme.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]

Not impossible.

[t]http://hour25.heroesx.chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hellenic-Navy_trireme.jpg[/t]

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias_%28trireme%29]That is an active-service vessel of the Hellenic Navy.[/url]

[editline]30th December 2014[/editline]

I do believe it is kept in service in case Iran returns to Salamis.

[Occlusion2018]

Damn, bad week for greek ships. Armed men?!

[mochisushi]

600 people, gosh, that's like 100 groups of 6 people.

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[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=mochisushi;46821152]600 people, gosh, that's like 100 groups of 6 people.[/QUOTE]

Or 6 groups of 100 people. This is serious.

[mochisushi]

Or 10 groups of 3 groups of 10 groups of 2 people.

[editline]30th December 2014[/editline]

Or 5 groups of 5 groups of 3 groups of 2 groups of 2 groups of 2 people.

[phaedon]

SKAI News (greek source) says that there are 700 people aboard. Reuters also reports estimates of 400 people. I still have no idea how they came up with these estimates.

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/30/us-greece-ship-armed-idUSKBN0K80RG20141230[/url]

[QUOTE=Occlusion;46821135]Damn, bad week for greek ships. Armed men?![/QUOTE]

Neither were/are greek ships. The Norman Atlantic was Italian, and Blue Sky M is Moldovan.

[phaedon]

[b]Update:[/b]

[quote]'Armed men aboard' #Moldova flagged MV Blue Sky M was false. Problem was crew abandoned ship. 400 to 600 #Syria migrants heading to #Italy[/quote]

[url]https://twitter.com/ksnavarra/status/549971661727223809[/url]

Well, thank god.

Meanwhile, the casualty list for the Norman Atlantic has been updated to 11 dead, and there is an unknown number of missing passengers. :/