Ghost ship found with crew missing

[Aknauta]

worldnetdaily.com


Ghost ship found with crew missing
Fishermen on Halloween voyage last contacted on Friday the 13th

Posted: January 15, 2003
2:45 a.m. Eastern


By Joe Kovacs
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com


Just days after Hollywood released a horror film entitled "Ghost Ship" in late October, a stranger-than-fiction mystery began that is now haunting authorities Down Under: the discovery of a real-life ghost ship.

The 65-foot vessel was found adrift off Western Australia Jan. 4 with tons of rotting fish aboard, but without a single crewmember anywhere to be found.

The Australian navy boarded the Taiwanese-registered High Aim 6 last week to find the boat in good sailing condition, with up to three tons of mackerel and tuna in the hold, not to mention personal items such as seven toothbrushes.

The two Taiwanese crewmen called their families every day," Lee told AP. "The last time they called was on Dec. 6." (http://www.worldnetdaily.co m/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ ID=30506)

[Bob2351]

This will be a movie of the week! Very strange indeed.

[The-Phoenix]

Here is the latest as of 16 Jan 10AM CST

http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tm....ship_dc (http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030115/od_nm/ghostship_dc)

[Charie]

Br-r-r-r-rr, shades of the Mary Deare.............. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tinfoil.gif

[navyblue]

A possibility:

The Al Queda strike at Bali was directed at Australians. *Evidently Australia is on AQ's list. *Oz has also been having trouble with islamics in country.

My hypothesis is that the captain and chief engineer were killed and the remaining crew (all Indonesians and possibly islamics) used the life rafts to land undetected in Australia.

Yeah, I know! http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tinfoil.gif

[Floridaguy]

yes, either that, or they are somewhere near Alpha Centauri by now..... http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag19.gif

[Terri]

Maybe they were smuggling something valuable, like drugs, and there was an internal dispute.

Maybe we should all get together and write a book. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laff.gif

[Trumper]

pirates probably boarded the boat and killed them either that, or they were some sort of intelligence officers for the taiwanese and the chinese cleaned house.

[AngelsRWorldChamps]

They were all Virgin Girls and Bill and Hillary board the ship they took there own lifes in the shark infested water Al gore pick up Bill and Hill in I was Almost President I HIS plane

In all honestly it was terrorist seeking into the outback going to blow something up.

Or the ship was carring bio haz material under the fish the offical will carry it back to the land and it will infest the whole place kind of like outbreak the movie

[Charie]

The bio-haz material manifests itself by causing the socialist scales to fall from the eyes of the people. When they can again see, they realize the error of their ways and discover that they are practicing conservatives, thereby saving the whole continent.

They all go back to work rejoicing and singing, "Waltzing Matilda".

[pRIMrose]

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Hmmmm...... http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/huh2.gif I thought that was &quot;Kum baya&quot; ~ http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laff.gif

I'm certain that they rendezvoused with Captain Nemo and are now Twenty Leagues Under The Sea. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

I'll bet that was one &quot;stinky&quot; boat. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mr_yuk.gif

[Aknauta]

Wow, what a crew! What an imagination!

I kind of like the space-alien angle myself, although Charie's is tempting...:rofl:

[Reccos]

Navyblue may have this right.

His theory that the crew harmed the Captain and Engineer and headed for the shores of Australia sounds very plausible, depending just where the ship was off shore.