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  • Frank posted an update 9 years ago

    Sigh…. I may be crazy and laughed out of dodge but I see this incident as something that may be more ominous in nature. I hope I am incorrect. This story has very little media coverage and I tried to find it on other news outlets other than The Sun and Fox news. So with my knowledge of naval warfare and history, this has all the hallmarks of a submarine attack and sinking. AS I stretch to review this last known radio transmission was ship had large hole and was listing and going down fast. Only two survivors is constant with fast sinking and if crew members were not on the weather deck as the hole was opened on the side they may have been trapped below and thus did not survive. My other piece of evidence was is a Reuters 2015 article on missing N Korea submarine force which was stating N Korea deployed 50 submarines and nobody was able to find them. That and other tidbits of data I have seen over the past 3 years to me appear to be a possibility. However I may also be wrong.

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/02/huge-cargo-ship-disappears-in-south-atlantic-with-22-crew-members-on-board.html

    • The ‘only’ suspicious part.. (apart from the ship ‘disappearing’ is that they have 2 survivors and they are still pushing the ‘vanished ghost ship’… Didnt the survivors tell their rescuers what happened…

      • Frank replied 9 years ago

        The story gave no indication of the condition of the survivors. Often in sinking conditions survivors may not know the circumstances of what may have caused the sinking. Interviews with allied survivors of ships being torpedoed didn’t see or know it was a submarine attack. All they knew was the ship was sinking fast and they may have felt an explosion but were never sure of what had happened. My own father’s destroyer was torpedoed during the war and all hands below decks were lost and it was at night time. They had no idea until their rescue of what happened and what attacked their ship. Too much data at once, sensory overload.

        • If the survivors are shocked and awed due to the speed that the boat sank. . Thats telling in itself. Watch this magnificent feat of logic……(drummroll….) The ship went down quickly.. because water was coming in quickly.. Which means there was a big hole in the coque.. ta da!!! Any icebergs floating in the South Atlantic? With Antartica falling to pieces.. perhaps a huge iceberg rammed them.. at ramming speed.

          • Frank replied 9 years ago

            I do not believe “icebergs” as the cause. These container and cargo ships sail along well established shipping routes which are monitored by navies and coast guards from all countries in the world. these trade routes are usually not that far south or north for that matter. So i am doubtful it was an iceberg. It may have been a underwater mine which is very possible as they are often deployed by submarine. N. Korea does have the capabilities to do this. When all of its sub force disappeared a while ago, naval officers were discussing their possible actions and laying mines was the major concern. Also the US Navy’s antisubmarine warfare capabilities has become dull since the fall of the Soviet Union as that was a major concern back then and not so much since then. Diesel electric boats are very difficult to detect except for the older Russian design.

            • An iceberg the size of delaware? No Im joking Frank, I dont think that it was an iceberg neither. Might this be the opening gambit to heat up the area after Trump’s statements about N Korea getting sorted out…