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Australian police are seeking the Taiwanese owners of an Indonesian-flagged ghost ship in a bid to discover why it was found drifting off the northern West Australian coast with tonnes of fish aboard but no crew.
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Pedantic quibble: that should be Mary Celeste.
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Oops You are quite correct. I must have been then thinking of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story
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Hehe, don't beat yourself up over it – Marie is what you see most often. Like n the story you linked to for instance.
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Marie would be more logical, because of the French sounding "celeste", but that is minor.
An insurance job?
Failing that blame a giant octopus or aliens.
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quote:Originally posted by Tier-Rex: Australian police are seeking the Taiwanese owners of an Indonesian-flagged ghost ship in a bid to discover why it was found drifting off the northern West Australian coast with tonnes of fish aboard but no crew.
We're missing the obvious suspects here: the fish.
If I were dragged out of the ocean, I'd be pissed.
The fish clearly overpowered the crew, threw them overboard, only to remember (tragically too late) that their status as water breathing creatures ill-equiped them to crew a surface vessel. After a couple of frantic minutes navigation, most drowned, apart from one or two who were simply overcome by the irony of their hollow victory.
To round this off as an UL rather than an LSD trip, we'd need a mobile phone left connected to one of the family of the fishermen which picked up the sounds of the struggle and then inhuman cries of "dive dive", followed by silence.
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So, what do most historians believe really happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste?
What causes "ghost ships", anyway?
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: So, what do most historians believe really happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste?
What causes "ghost ships", anyway?
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The most interesting speculation that I've seen is that the cargo of the Mary Celeste included barrels of -- alcohol? Don't remember -- a liquid that produced a foggy vapor under hot conditions. The idea was that the cargo began to fume, and the crew mistakenly believed the ship was afire and in imminent danger of explosion. They hastily took to the lifeboats, but a sudden wind or squall caught the ship and it sailed off before they could return aboard.
...but that's only the most interesting one.
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I still want to beleive it was a giant squid that wanted to impress its mates by scaring a load of seemen overboard- then afterwards they probably went down the local boozer to impress the lady squids with their adventure.
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As I remember that theory (the most logical, others containing Aliens, The Bermuda Triangle, and a piano), it was along the lines that the alcohol started smoking (like you described) and they abondoned ship. However, according to the source I have (It's a book, I might be able to find a refrence on the 'net), there was no recorded damage to the cargo, ergo, how would these fumes escape? There were also people who claimed to be survivers of the wreck, and had quite a good yarn.
PS: No, there were no bloody swords or freshly cooked meals in the gally.
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