It happens more than we think.Immense vessels that, at any given time, end up being abandoned by crew members and passengers, being suspended in a legal limbo where nobody ends up taking responsibility for these giant iron ships rusted by the sea and time.
They drift, guided by ocean currents and tides pushing them on a journey without destination .Sometimes, in their cabins and machine rooms there are unresolved riddles, mysteries that caused in the past the disappearance of those who traveled in their bowels and that even today, have not been able to be revealed or understood.Therefore they call them ghost ships , titanic ships that can be found from time to time with fishing, transatlantic and even cruise ships that detect in their radars the proximity of those sea ghosts filled by silent currents and mysteries.
T and would you like to know the best known cases?
The Mary Celeste
One of the best known mysteries within navigation.The Mary Celeste was a distinguished ship that appeared the December 4, 1872 , between the Azores and Portugal.He had been drifting for several years, his contact and location had been lost.
When he managed to get inside his facilities, it was discovered that the crew had disappeared without a trace, there were no remains, no clues, no marks that they had been assaulted or attacked.Moreover, the ship was full of provisions for at least a month, and even its cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol remained intact in the cellar.
The logbook marked a final message from the captain dated November 24 d and 1870. Benjamin Briggs did not talk about anything abnormal.Just routine.But all the clues indicated that people had left with "in a hurry." The pipes and tobacco had been abandoned suddenly, there were no lifeboats that could explain either a possible flight by the crew...simply, there was no explanation.Mary Celeste is the mystery more enigmatic of maritime history.
The Flying Dutchman
Halfway between the legend and reality , the history of the Dutch Errante is an ancient legend of the sea that has been among us for over 400 years. Wagner I dedicate an opera to it, and the cinema is a multitude of versions that have made it, a historical framework where it is difficult to see reality But more or less experts have left us some small sketches on which to base ourselves: «The Dutch» was a ship that in 1680 made the crossing to the Indi as Oriental, and that was led by Captain Hendrik van der Decken .Everything was fine as they sailed through the tropical seas, but when they reached the end of Good Hope, a violent temporary shattered the helm.
They lost control, drifting weeks and weeks.Legend says that the captain, Van der fiecken was enraged seeing that he could do nothing to save his ship and his crew, so he began to curse.Full of rage, I shout to the night storm the following words:
«I challenge the power of God to stop the course of my destiny and my determined career.Not even the devil will awaken my fear.Even if he has to sail the seas until the day of judgment.”
And of course, God was not long in revenge for that affront, ordering Van der Decken and his ship to wander forever by the seas "until the trumpets of God rip the heavens." And there is more...whoever encounters "The Blacking Dutch" will suffer a terrible misfortune.
The Russian cruiser Lyubov Orlova
First page news.This ship is about to reach British shores.Its presence is raising a worldwide alarm before a gigantic vessel that has been drifting for years, and guarding its inside an authentic army of rats.Of rats that have survived feeding on each other.Simply terrible.It is feared that they may have dangerous virus to escape, if by one of those, any of these animals managed to reach mainland.
The Lyubov Orlova, was built in 1976, and is named after a Russian actress and singer.For more than 30 years it has been used as an expedition ship for Arctic waters and of the Antarctic, until in 2006 it was stranded in the Antarctic.Despite being towed, in 2010 was abandoned by its owners in Newfoundland.
More late it was sold for scrapping, but the boat that towed it, I just lost it and nobody s and I worry about recovering it , becoming a threat to other ships.The Atlantic ocean currents have taken him since then, from there over the years, until a few weeks ago, he has been seen again approaching the coast of Scotland.
The satellites and the witnesses who have passed by aboard other vessels have seen hundreds of nervous rats cross their bridges along that long journey that seems not never end.Zoos and biologists deduce that surely, to survive they have practiced cannibalism , so it is a really dangerous ship causing a medical alarm that nobody seems to be responsible for., that the Lyuvov Orlova is sinking little by little...
A ghost ship more abandoned to its fate and inhabited by uncomfortable mysteries that occasionally appear on the surface.experts say that in reality they are hundreds of ships that sail aimlessly and without captain at their helm.Who knows, maybe all of them have stumbled upon the fearsome «Dutch Warrior».
Image: Till Krech
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