https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45377707
Its strange to think about what might lie out in the vastness of the ocean, how many of these might be out there drifting.
That's so eerie. Obviously there's a rational explanation, but I still like to entertain the fantasy that something crazy happened in my head before we hear the truth.
So when do we see the found footage where the security team finds footage that ends with a blurry thing screeching and jumping at the camera?
I wonder how many people in Myanmar watch scifi horror schlock because I can't imagine americans would want to go in there
It's been lost at sea for 9 years, nobody has seen it since 2009.
on the other hand there is a very real danger of this being a plague ship given how these ships can travel literally across the globe, its possible the crew could have contracted something and if it wasn't well equipped, they all could have died leaving the ship and its disease adrift.
not that that is what has happened here obviously
I heard it had an experimental engine that could warp space to cross vast distances in order to save money on fuel.
Whats really creepy is that its only recently been abandoned, and its still in working condition.
I wonder if North Korea stole it or something, and has been using it since.
Apparently the ship was sold to be dismantled/salvaged but it looks like for whatever reason while it was being towed it never reached its destination.
This ship may well have been washed out of a breaking yard by a flood. It's obviously been adrift for a while. The authorities say it was "recently" abandoned but its transponder was turned off in 2009 and it hasn't been seen since sooo...
Maybe Valve is hinting something with this
It's also possible it was just abandoned by the owner and crew. Happens more often than you think.
fuck off with that logical occam's razor bullshit. it was demons and you know it
ya like that ghost tanker that exploded off the coast of china a while back. it got into a collision and the crew abandoned ship before the authorities arrived leaving behind a giant burning timebomb
Yeah I could imagine a corp having this old POS of a cargo ship but they don't have the money to retrofit it, nobody wants to buy it and it would cost too much to mothball it or scrap it anywhere so they just have it tugged somewhere and "accidentally" lose it.
wonder if myanmar salvage laws entitle the fisherman to the boat
Its cargo was Valve's trading card game decks.
So do we have any details on the circumstances in which it disappeared? What was it last setting sail for, was there any coverage of it disappearing?
A strange old fashioned schooner with black flag was rushing down at us. She was a fire, with a sort of pale blue light. The crew paid us no mind, but their faces and eyes were those of dead men."
Somehow I doubt Myanmar laws entitle working-class people to anything.
“A strange, old-fashioned schooner
with a big black flag was rushing down at us,” Billings said later. “She
was a fire with a sort of weird, pale-blue light that lighted up every
nook and cranny of her.
“The crew was pulling at the ropes and
doing other work, and they paid us no attention, didn’t even glance our
way. They all had ghastly bleeding wounds, but their faces and eyes were
those of dead men."
Supernatural suspensions intensifies.
Man what a trip. Those books were something.
Could be pirates captured the ship or the crew became pirates themselves and subsequently laundered the cargo on some hidden coastline. The ship could've then been left to rot to be salvaged by looters almost 10 years later. Maybe it was stuck in shallow water or something until erosion set it free.
On Saturday, Myanmar's navy said it suspected the ship had been towed by another ship after "two cables... were found at its head".
They later found a tugboat, called Independence, about 80km (50 miles) off Myanmar's coast.
After questioning the 13 Indonesian crew members on board, they learned that the tugboat had been towing the vessel since 13 August, and intended to take it to a factory in Bangladesh that would dismantle and salvage the ship.
However, some of the cables attached to the boat broke in bad weather, and they decided to abandon the ship.
such an epic mystery
Huh, such a huge ship only sailed for less than ten years? I thought these things are in operation till the fall apart
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/8/8b/Strength.png/revision/latest?cb=20140805151838
First thing came to mind
Ships are commodities and get bought and sold all the time depending on what the demand is. When the ship is no longer profitable it just eats up money so companies sell them. Sometimes companies make bad gambles and brand new ships head straight to the scrap yard. 10 years is pretty short for a ship, though. Should be twice that. A lot of ships are owned by companies as investments. Kind of like buying a bunch of stock but instead you got a ship that can also be chartered out and make you money. Then you can sell the ship itself later on if the demand for that type of cargo goes up. Sometimes the highest bidder is a scrap yard, who then sells the recycled materials for a profit.
I remember this, It's the plot for ghost ship and then the later remake.
Now i'm not saying anything it's specific but it rhymes with the words "broto-Spice Bulk stiffed with Jean-Thievers"
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