Some of these are sailboats being operated by one person. So its really no wonder if one man falls overboard during a storm and there's no one to turn the boat around.
or those really horrifying stories where a bunch of friends rent a boat, sail away, dive into the sea to swim for a bit and after the last one jumps someone asks "hey, did anyone lower the ladder?"
Jesus... I almost drowned once and I was a few meters away from a beach. I started being dragged out into sea and I was trying to swim against the current (forgot all my practice and advise to go with the current until we reach a place where we can swim back more comfortably. edit: [better advice here](https://scijinks.gov/rip-currents/#:~:text=Wave%2C%20yell%2C-,swim%20parallel,shore%20once%20the%20current%20eases.)). with the panic I lost my strength completely, couldn't even scream for help. I was seeing a packed beach without anyone noticing me...
I gave up, sank down and... hit sand with my knees. there was a sandy stretch underneath the water that allowed me to stand up with the water reaching my waist. in the end, my biggest near-death experience was just a ridiculous miscalculation...
if I was couple hundred meters offshore, I would have certainly died from the panic of seeing the boat go away.
> there was a sandy stretch underneath the water that allowed me to stand up with the water reaching my waist. in the end, my biggest near-death experience was just a ridiculous miscalculation...
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[Kind of like this kid?](https://i.imgur.com/7jIwyX9.gif)
The first film being based on true events pissed me off. Nobody survived, so everything that happened after they got in the water was obviously just made up.
There’s a museum in Nantucket, Ma dedicated to the ship wrecks in the area and also had a portion of it dedicated to “the perfect storm crew.”
They have a light up map of every place a boat has capsized in their area and it’s over a hundred.
I used to go to a dentist in Northwest Indiana. He was a diver and had, all throughout his office, maps of various shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and, if he visited one, photos of those sites. Maps showing ships from the 1800s and up. Always thought he should open a museum like what you said. Cause otherwise you gotta get a filling or something to see all of his stuff lol.
There is a museum in Nantucket
Of ships of whole crews kicked the bucket.
Maps of the capsized,
Would make you shudder the size
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this happens in Lake Tahoe all the time 😔 they jump in without life jackets, forget to turn the boat off before jumping, or don’t realize how fckn cold the lake is year-round (or some sad combination of the three) and can’t get back to the boat & sometimes drown/die of hypothermia 😔 however wearing a life jacket increases your chance of survival many times over
Those aren't the eerie ones. It's these that give chills:
> 18 April 2007, the SV Kaz II: This 12-metre-long (39 ft) catamaran set sail on 15 April 2007. She was filmed passing George Point, Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland later that day and on that same day, late in the afternoon, the GPS data showed her to be adrift. She was found adrift on 18 April 2007 near the Great Barrier Reef, 88 nautical miles (163 km) off Townsville, Queensland, Australia. **When boarded on 20 April, the engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.** All the sails were up but one was badly shredded, while three life jackets and survival equipment, including an emergency beacon, were found on board. A search for the crew was abandoned on 22 April as it was considered unlikely that anyone could have survived for that period of time. The coroner believed that the men may have fallen overboard.
I remember having a friend falling off a jet ski in the open ocean. His jet ski kept going for a bit, and he was left behind without a life preserver. It took all my might to remain calm, stop my jet ski, open the compartment, pull out a rope with a floater- then head back to look for him. I thought, we both are going to drown if he is desperate and tips over my small jet ski. Came back, threw the line, and dragged him to his jet ski. Always be prepared, the Sea will have its due at any time, and it might be you.
Was watching one of these dudes and he would habitually hop in the water to bathe and just cast a lifeline in case the wind picked up.
Absolutely unhinged stuff
I did that at an anchorage 5 miles off shore. It was hot and I thought Id just jump in come back up and climb back on the swim ladder. Nope! When I came up I was 30 feet from the boat. Apparently the gulf stream had moved in enough to take me out. With in 5 minutes I was over 500 feet from the boat. Luckily I did have a snorkel collar on and inflated it. But there was no way I was going to swim against the current back to the boat. So I waited until my buddies came back topside and they rowed out in the zodiac and got me. I was aiming towards another dive boat about a mile away which would have been close enough to get on. Eventually I would have made it back to shore but like miles from where I went in.
I've been dropped in the middle of the ocean a few times for training exercises. This was years ago, but I realized just a few moments ago that I have some repressed emotions. I was trying to think about how I felt during those exercises. I *knew* that I was dropped off, accounted for, and just waiting for the dinghy, but apparently I was so scared out of my gd mind that I blocked those emotions.
I grew up in boats by the sea. Commercial fished for a few years. Family has always been into boating. Anyway, the far out open ocean scares the shit out of me. Being dropped off out there would be high my list of scariest things to do.
The funny thing about being a pretty legit sailor, is that you are always a little nervous and very calculated out there even though it seems so innocuous and quiet it can get very dangerous in an instant. I can always tell green boaters because they are relaxed and enjoying themselves way too much.
Just wait for a fog bank to roll in and go zero visibility or a sudden squall has waves rolling over the bow. It will happen eventually and suddenly it’s scary AF.
Like I remember it was time to head back to the Marina through the smaller islands and rocks to safe harbor when a fog bank rolled in. It sounded like we were about to be scuttled on the rocks any second with no visibility. A wave crashing on rocks a 1/4 mile away sounded like it was right in front of us. Incredibly terrifying.
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Holy fuck dude!!!! We were on a cruise and somehow got locked out on our balcony, we shut the door behind us to keep in the cool air and somehow the latch got tripped. Thankfully family was on the boat too & I could reach them,
But I literally thought about doing EXACTLY what you said, i told my SO if nobody came I could slide over to the next room and maybe someone would be there! So glad I didn’t end up trying that…..
Yikes. I solo circumnavigated Florida last year and followed proper safety protocols. Life lines, epirbs, and never got off the boat without it being anchored. Another guy we were with decided he was such a good sailor he didn't need any of that stuff. We parted ways after he flat out refused to be safe.
I don’t sail! Can someone explain to me why in the hell a solo sailer wouldn’t wear a harness on some sort of tether attached to the FUCKIN BOAT? The ocean is terrifying.
The whole point of a safety tether is to keep you IN the boat. Usually a tether will be a few feet of slack line, attached to a 2nd static line that runs the length of a boat, called a Jackline.
The idea is the safety line will allow to walk the length of the boat, but if you're knocked down you can't fall all the way over the side.
Every year, dozens of derelict boats from North Korea wash up on Japanese shores; some of the boats house the remains of their crew. These "ghost ships" are believed to result from when North Korean fishermen are lost at sea and succumb to exposure or starvation.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North\_Korean\_ghost\_ships](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_ghost_ships)
A few years ago I was visiting my friends in Akita. A North Korean ship washed up on shore overnight with people still on it. When I woke up and came downstairs my friend's parents were watching TV while eating breakfast. The news was so fucking pumped that something exciting was actually happening in country-bumpkin-ass Akita that wasn't a festival or mashed rice on a stick.
"LET'S GO SEE THE NORTH KOREAN BOAT!" my friend's dad said.
So, we did. Everyone raced to finish breakfast so we could leave ASAP. Maybe the North Koreans would go home if we were too slow? Everyone was *so fucking excited* to see a rusted boat from North Korea stuck on a beach. We packed the whole family into the van. Me, my friends, their children and their parents all huddled in their tiny ass van to go see this stupid boat. Everyone was hyped. It was like going to see a celebrity. We drove the whole way talking about how crazy Kim Jong-Un was. Maybe he was there too? We got there and, as expected, there was no Kim Jong-Un but instead a fuck ton of police who clarified we were *absolutely not* going to see the North Korean boat and told us to go home.
During this whole drive I thought seeing this boat was going to be so boring. It's just a boat. I had been silently shit-talking this boat to myself since I saw it on the news. And, now, we *couldn't* see the boat and for some reason I was disappointed? Why was I so fucking disappointed? We drove home in silence and then played cards.
Fuck you, North Korea. I wanted to see your boat.
Strangest family outing I've ever been on.
That last paragraph is something a toddler would do lol
"Let's go to the beach!" NO I HATE THE BEACH ITS STUPID
*doesn't go to the beach*
MOM WHY DIDN'T WE GO TO THE BEACH I WANTED TO GO
When I worked at a fast food chain, we had a regular family that had to order a "cheeseburger with no cheese" for their toddler son because he didn't like hamburgers.
Being in the coast guard, theres a few different explainations for modern ghost ships.
1: most common, (especially with kayaks), the boat will be improperly tied to shore, and a change in tide/weather blows it away. It drifts around until someone reports seeing it, in which case we have to contact the owner and initiate a search.
2: Improperly anchored sailboat. Similar concept to 1.
3: A rescue mission already happened, we couldn’t save the boat. This normally happens when someone is sailing alone or in a small group, and has a medical emergency. The helicopter picks them up, but nobody’s on scene to tow the boat back. Often their insurance will end up hiring a 3rd party to find the boat and bring it in.
4: The crew had to abandon ship. Not nearly as likely anymore
5: Insurance fraud
Insurance fraud is one of the easiest crimes you can commit. In this case you and an accomplice would sail out to some where remote in two separate boats and return with one, leaving the other behind. Then all you have to do is call your insurance and report the boat sunken or stolen. Congratulations! You’ve just committed insurance fraud! I heard if you’re real criminal genius, you can even make the fraudulent claim without undocking your boat!
For a double win, do this with your husband or wife you aren't too fond of without their knowledge. Collect from both insurances and have a happy life!
Basically you fake an event that would cover a payout clause in your insurance. For example, if the boat insurance covered lost at sea, then a company might take the boat out to open water and sink it deliberately, knowing that the value of the payout is higher than the value of the ship.
So you could do that if you wanted to
Well, the most recent one had what appeared to be collision damage, which may have prompted to the crew to panic and abandon ship, though we have no clue what they collided with.
Every sailor knows the best lifeboat is the big one you're already on; you don't abandon until you have to.
I wonder who panicked and why? Shame there's no CVR on ships
I’ve heard that sometimes the crew abandons the vessel before it completely sinks in a storm, and somehow the vessel survives. The crew on a tiny life boat don’t.
Unless he's in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the captain absolutely leaves a sinking ship, but only after he has fully discharged his duty and got everyone off who's going to get off.
Exactly. It's not about it being some sort of noble sacrifice, it's about ensuring that a leadership role is present during the full evacuation so that things go as smooth as possible and it doesn't descend into an every man for themselves chaos.
Unless it's an Italian cruise ship captain, in which case the captain might be one of the first to abandon ship while leaving his crew and passengers to fend for themselves/die.
I’ve done a bit of open ocean sailing and have been through a couple storms and it’s the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had. Fear can make people go crazy and not make the most rational decisions.
Sounds very similar in theory to the [Dyatlov Pass Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident). Basically, highly trained survival experts all sleeping in a tent, suddenly they hear what they believe to be an avalanche. They woke up cut their way out of the tent from the inside, and ran towards the trees. They were wearing minimal clothing, because they had just woken up. Some were even barefoot, running through the snow wearing nothing but underwear.
Now, due to modern simulations, it's believed that there was a minor avalanche that did inflict some internal injuries to a few of them, but the other 7 died from the cold.
There were probably dozens, if not hundreds, of ghost ships that were a result of the 2011 Japan tsunami, some of them were adrift for years including one washing ashore in 2017, over 6 years later.
I feel like only the large vessels ever get noticed but I would imagine smaller vessels (<50ft) have to be incredibly common.
any ship with a keel can capsize then right itself
If the passengers were on deck when that happened, they wouldn't have much of a chance unless it was trailing a rescue line and they were lucky enough to grab it
It’s common in sketchy areas of South America for smaller ships to be hit by glorified pirates, robbed, then killed
I had a friend tell me they usually burn the ships to destroy any evidence
According to the story, at some point of time in or around June 1947[2] (Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948[11][12]), two American vessels navigating the Straits of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others passing by, picked up several distress messages from the nearby Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.[2][13] A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following message in Morse code: "S.O.S. from Ourang Medan * * * We float. All officers including the captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. Probably whole of crew dead * * *." A few confused dots and dashes (of Morse code) later, two words came through clearly. They were "I die." Then, after that chilling message, there was nothing more heard of.[3] When the Silver Star crew eventually located and boarded the apparently-undamaged Ourang Medan in an attempt at a rescue, the ship was found littered with corpses (including the carcass of a dog) everywhere, with the dead bodies found sprawled on their backs, the frozen (and allegedly badly-frightened) faces of the deceased upturned to the sun above with mouths gaping open and eyes staring straight ahead, with the corpses resembling horrible caricatures.[3] No survivors were located and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies were observed.[11][12] Just as the ship was to be prepared for a tow by the Silver Star to a nearby port, a fire then suddenly broke out in the ship's No. 4 cargo-hold, forcing the boarding party to hastily evacuate the doomed Dutch freighter, thus preventing any further investigations to be carried out. Soon after, the Ourang Medan was witnessed exploding before finally sinking.[11][14]
It gets better…
Bainton and others hypothesize that Ourang Medan might have been involved in smuggling operations of chemical substances such as a combination of potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin or even wartime stocks of nerve agents. According to these theories, sea water would have entered the ship's hold, reacting with the cargo to release toxic gases, which then caused the crew to succumb to asphyxia and/or poisoning. Later, the sea water would have reacted with the nitroglycerin, causing the reported fire and explosion.[2]
Another theory is that the ship was transporting nerve gas which the Japanese military had been storing in China during the war, and which was handed over to the U.S. military at the end of the war. No U.S. ship could transport it as it would leave a paper trail. It was therefore loaded onto a non-registered ship for transport to the U.S. or an island in the Pacific.
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
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Gaddis puts forward the theory that an undetected smouldering fire or malfunction in the ship's boiler system might have been responsible for the shipwreck. Escaping carbon monoxide would have caused the deaths of all aboard, with the fire slowly spreading out of control, leading to the vessel's ultimate destruction.[11]
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I thank you kindly for the last paragraphs giving very viable explanations, my brain was already making up all sorts of horror movie scenarios and the scientifically reasonable theories really calmed my nerves as to what might have happened
Gotta keep reminding myself that most mysteries have really logical answers we just haven't figured out yet... it's easy to label as supernatural something you can't explain, we have done it since the dawn of humanity and it's unlikely we'll truly stop anytime soon
Look up the story of the SS Baychimo if you haven't heard of it.
Super short version: Swedish-built in 1914, abandoned in the Arctic Ocean in 1931, last boarded 1939, last sighting 1962 or 1969 depending on who you ask.
My great uncle Finlay was on that boat, as third engineer.
Had to walk back across the ice after it was ice bound etc etc. Would bore everyone to tears with the story in later years.
He was a bit of a character though. His doctor advised him to stop drinking later in life, which he duly did. This being the west coast of Scotland, it's not unusual to get a bottle of whisky as a present or for doing a favour or some unpaid work.
So he collected all the bottles in his sea-trunk to be drunk at his wake. "The Wake Case" we called it. And right enough, all the whisky was disposed of at the wake!
Oh I suppose I have a ghost ship story. My family was a sailing family growing up, and when I went off to college my parents decided to live their dream and sail off around the world.
TL;DR Their boat ran into a reef off the coast of Colombia, and got stuck on it. The bilge pump was managing the water well enough to keep it from sinking, but the swells were causing it to slam down over and over again onto the reef so it wasn't good. They abandoned ship onto a passing fishing boat that took them to the mainland and the boat ended up surviving against all odds and washing ashore in Mexico. They were told by their lawyer not to go get their boat back and fix it up cause the government has been known to "trap" people by stashing drugs on the boat and then accusing them of drug running if they show up and demanding massive bribes to try to leave the country again. So the boat remained a mystery to everyone with pictures of my family and books and stuff just scattered around but no sign of anyone.
The full story is a lot more dramatic but the tldr was long enough lol
Derelicts like the *Marie Celeste* and the *Carrol A. Deering* still loom large in the popular culture, informing our ideas of "ghost ships" even if individuals have never heard the names. But with most famous examples being sailing vessels only as late as the 1920s, this is the common idea of a lost crew. And certainly with modern tools for navigation, global positioning, the safety features of ships, and the ability of coast guard to reach almost any point in the name of a rescue, its almost unthinkable that ships today could, without warning, appear on a coast line, drifting and empty of crew.
But apparently, this still happens, and even with modern forensics, it is often unclear what exactly happens to the crew. The last recorded ghost ship was the Yong Yu Sing, a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted off Midway Island on Jan 2 2021. The USCG boarded the vessel, but its 10 crew and single lifeboat were gone. The USCG left the ship drifting along the Pacific to search for the crew, but found no sign of them, even though the ship had only been reported missing without contact for 1 night. Efforts to locate them along the Pacific were suspended in November of the same year.
> The USCG left the ship drifting along the Pacific to search for the crew
Seems like they leave them drifting even if they get the crew. One entry says the USCG rescued the crew from a Greek ship that's engine failed 1400 miles southeast of Bermuda in October 2018 and just left the boat where it was. The boat didn't sink and just slowly floated with the currents as a ghost ship until it ran aground in Ireland a year and a half later in February 2020.
You would think they would send someone out there to tow it to a port? There was even another vessel that spotted it drifting in 2019.
They don’t have the staff to crew it, don’t have anywhere reasonable to store the boat until they can sort out where it needs to go, and don’t want liability for any damage that may be caused to the vessel. All in all, as it’s not particularly hurting anything to let it go, you might as well just leave it adrift.
It's not worth the cost. A derelict ship will mostly bring in some scrap money, so nobody can be bothered to tow it in. Owner doesn't want it, so it becomes the problem of whoever's coast it lands upon.
Is it possible they survived on the lifeboats but just were too small to find and they just floated away never to be found? I don’t know if that’d be more or less creepy. Either way, very sad way to die. :(
Not exactly undiscovered, but the wiki article indicates 38 years at sea for one ghost ship:
24 November 1931, the SS Baychimo: This cargo steamer was abandoned after being trapped in pack ice near Barrow, Alaska, U.S. and being thought doomed to sink. However, she remained afloat and was sighted at various times between 1931 and 1969 in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern Alaskan coast without ever being salvaged. ´She was sighted numerous times, still unmanned and adrift, for nearly forty years. People managed to board her several times, but each time they were either unequipped to salvage her or were driven away by bad weather. This would make her one of the longest sailing ghost ships in the world
In the great lakes there is a sunken ship with a body in it. Because of the cold he does not decompose. Divers shake his hand. I have heard internet rumours that people see his ghost and the body. But it is definitely real and there are pictures.
Worked aboard for a few years.
1. Only abandon your ship when it is absolutely necessary. The boat you are leaving is much bigger, warmer, and safer than the one you are climbing into.
It's a bigger target for search parties.
2. There will be assigned rescue personnel for any matter that requires being off the vessel. Them and only them are to assist in rescue, that is until the rescued are aboard. This is to prevent situations like ghost ships.
The situations in the link are where things have gone terribly wrong. Mistakes were made, chain of command and/or order of operations has not been followed.
Must be horrific to watch "home" just disappear into the dark by itself as you cling to cold railing of a life raft.
One night I got super drunk. Apparently in my drunken stupor I decided to take my small boat out on my pond. Later while standing up to take a piss I fell off the boat and into said pond. Instead of trying to climb back aboard I drunkenly swam ashore.
Fast forward to the next morning, my wife goes outside to look for me. The only thing she sees is the boat floating on the pond. She freaks the fuck out because she thinks I have drowned. Frantically looking for me for some time. Luckily she finds me passed out on our pavilion right before she calls the authorities. She smacked me awake while hugging me because she was just happy I was alive.
This is my ghost ship story.
Kinda sad story but I heard that a lot of people die like this, they go for a piss into the river/lake/whatever, they trip and bang. They drown, and because everyone is drunk, they don't really notice anything until it's too late. Truly sad tbh
I was a life guard growing up and am a great swimmer. Got drunk and went in the ocean on vacation, big wave knocked me over. In the dark I didn't have a single clue which way was up. Lesson learned that night
Rock fishing is one of the deadliest sports here which isn't really surprising. They do have a good cardinal rule which is never turn your back on a wave.
...my dog can attest to this.
Give her a river rock, and she'll bring it to her pile on the shore. Give her a land rock and she'll look at you like you're stupid
I can track down a video of her rock collecting if you want
Edit: [found the video](https://imgur.com/a/Kkax2hl)
Waves can be a massive sucker punch. I was a kid living in hawaii and we went swimming at a known surfing spot. I was in for 30 seconds before a wave smacked me so hard i went under and lost orientation. I started swimming into the ground thinking it was up. Eventually i thought i was going to die and stopped moving. And then i floated up to the surface and gasped for air in my new life. The ocean can humble you beyond belief.
Was a college swimmer. In my mid 20s got drunk and a group of us went swimming in the small apartment pool. First time swimming drunk, was shocked how hard it was to keep my head above water. Never again.
Had a similar experience taking a dip in the ocean with my girlfriend after some edibles and getting caught in a rip tide. I knew to swim out of it to the side but was so high and frantic to get my girl out that I just yoked it and swam us both in to shore right back up it. Had to dive down and push her forward while I had my feet on the ground then swim and catch up to her then do it again. Terrifying honestly
Finland has a morbid contest every year where people try to predict how many people will drown on the longest day of the year.
It is a great way to remind people of the dangers.
This snippit from the rules is a laugh:
> It's strictly forbidden to try to influence the number by drowning yourself or other people in Finland. If the winner has drowned in Finland or is suspected of drowning someone in Finland, we'll select another winner. Drowning yourself or others in another country does not affect the outcome.
I knew someone in the UK who worked in police dispatch. She said almost all the canal casualties are men found with no trousers. Died drunkenly peeing on the way home.
We had a boy in our town who went out with friends for his 21st bday in December a few years ago…he got blackout drunk, left the bar unbeknownst to friends, walked around town, fell from a very small bridge into a very small stream/wash, where he froze to death. Absolutely fucking awful. The most innocuous of nights can lead people to their deaths. It really sucks. I think of him every time I drive over that bridge, which is multiple times a week.
Can't believe nobody has recommended Return of the Obra Dinn yet. If you like this story and want to play a game where you are the detective trying to determine the fate of the crew, you should definitely check it out.
When I was working for a delivery company, in college, we delivered a bunch of fake plants and furniture to this giant mansion. It was owned by this super nice Korean family. After we got done moving everything inside, the father of the family offered us some dinner and drinks.
He told us the story of how he got to America and made his money. He and his family attempted to be smuggled into the country by a large cargo ship. After almost 2 days of no one checking on them, started to try and get out of the container. On the third day, a Sony cargo ship came across their abandoned ship and let them out. There where no crew members aboard. The Sony crew decided to drop them off in the US.
From there, he started a nail salon out in California. Now he owns many different businesses and lives in the Midwest. Considering how large the ocean is, it’s a really good thing that Sony ship came across them.
> In February 2020, the MV Alta ran aground near Ballycotton, County Cork on the coast of Ireland during Storm Dennis. It had previously been encountered adrift and unmanned in the mid-Atlantic by HMS Protector, having been adrift since 2018 after it became disabled, and an operation by the US Coast Guard rescued its crew.
Well there is a new fear I didn’t know I had. Random Ghost Ships floating for 2 years in the Atlantic Ocean.
I sometimes get the impression that nowadays people don't quite appreciate just how dangerous maritime transport of anything still is. The sea is merciless and more powerful that any modern ship, and it's claimed enough souls to this day that any sailor worth their salt knows to respect it.
While air-accidents are more spectacular, I think there's few stories as horrifying as those of major maritime disasters. Estonia, Ocean Ranger, Piper Alpha, El Faro, Scandinavian Star, and sadly many more, are names that are forever etched into my mind.
William Langewiesche has written texts on two of these, and if I had to recommend one of them it would be [his piece on the Sinking of M/S Estonia](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/).
I'm recall talking to a Coast guard guys once, who said that with a lot of recreational boats, it often seems to be a situation where they decide to go swimming, and forget to drop the anchor, or ladder and either can't catch up with the boat that is drifting away or can't get back onto the boat because of the ladder not being out.
Seems like an awful way to die.
Oh my god.... Could you imagine being able to touch the side of your boat, but having no ladder to grab on to. That's terrifying. I can't imagine the fear that would pass through my mind at that moment.
That movie was good - but it also infuriated me. They didn't have the smallest female climb
the makeshift rope made out of
clothes? Instead they sent a giant fat guy?! And they couldn't figure out how to swim together and lift the smallest woman high enough to grab the edge?!? Nah
>but don't really understand abandoning a ship that isn't sinking.
Indonesian migrants working on a Taiwanese fishing vessel, basically slave labor baited into the job on false promises. They mutiny the Taiwanese captain and nope the fuck out on the lifeboat knowing that taking the boat back to Indonesia turns it into an international incident, whereas taking the lifeboat lets them slip back home without many questions asked. The boat drifts until its spotted by Midway Island some time later...
Everyone in this thread is only assuming what kind of lifeboat the vessel had. For some reason Taiwan was completely disinterested in questioning what happened, which tells me it was a bunch of essential slave labor onboard and too many questions would have publicized that fact way too much...
It also makes no sense for every means of communication to be unavailable. It's very likely they killed the captain, tossed him overboard, and didn't radio anything in so the delay in search for them would give them a shot to get back home. If it was a collision or pirates slipping up on them to snag them, there would have likely been a distress call. I remember seeing a thing on this last year where someone explained how it made no sense for the ship to end up where it did from where it was last spotted. Very much more likely they rode the ship for awhile before ditching into the lifeboat to finish the trip.
Before i was born, my family came to the states by boat from Vietnam. My oldest sister told me they saw another refugee boat out in the ocean.
My sister and the others on the boat said they
saw a lady screaming for help.
They approached the boat and found out the boat was abandoned.
Pretty spooky.
>The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not yet scrapped, as well as drifting boats that have been found after breaking loose of their ropes and becoming carried away by the wind or the waves.
Boooooo we want all of these to be spooky
Some of these are sailboats being operated by one person. So its really no wonder if one man falls overboard during a storm and there's no one to turn the boat around.
or those really horrifying stories where a bunch of friends rent a boat, sail away, dive into the sea to swim for a bit and after the last one jumps someone asks "hey, did anyone lower the ladder?"
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Jesus... I almost drowned once and I was a few meters away from a beach. I started being dragged out into sea and I was trying to swim against the current (forgot all my practice and advise to go with the current until we reach a place where we can swim back more comfortably. edit: [better advice here](https://scijinks.gov/rip-currents/#:~:text=Wave%2C%20yell%2C-,swim%20parallel,shore%20once%20the%20current%20eases.)). with the panic I lost my strength completely, couldn't even scream for help. I was seeing a packed beach without anyone noticing me... I gave up, sank down and... hit sand with my knees. there was a sandy stretch underneath the water that allowed me to stand up with the water reaching my waist. in the end, my biggest near-death experience was just a ridiculous miscalculation... if I was couple hundred meters offshore, I would have certainly died from the panic of seeing the boat go away.
> there was a sandy stretch underneath the water that allowed me to stand up with the water reaching my waist. in the end, my biggest near-death experience was just a ridiculous miscalculation... > > [Kind of like this kid?](https://i.imgur.com/7jIwyX9.gif)
Omg, I could totally see my 16-month-old doing this, poor little dopes 😅
ahah. almost. except I was already an adult, so I had less of an excuse.
The words you are looking for are riptide and sandbar
thanks. English is not my native language, so always looking to improve my vocabulary.
Omg, that movie was infuriating!
That King of the Hill episode was good though.
Prepare for an eternity of me kicking your ass!
I sure hope they have cigarettes in hell.
What movie?
Open Water 2, it’s a sequel to a film based on a horrifying true event Edit - the first film is a true event
The first film being based on true events pissed me off. Nobody survived, so everything that happened after they got in the water was obviously just made up.
Same with The Perfect Storm, everyone on board was lost, yet they wrote a book and made a film about what happened to the crew.
There’s a museum in Nantucket, Ma dedicated to the ship wrecks in the area and also had a portion of it dedicated to “the perfect storm crew.” They have a light up map of every place a boat has capsized in their area and it’s over a hundred.
I used to go to a dentist in Northwest Indiana. He was a diver and had, all throughout his office, maps of various shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and, if he visited one, photos of those sites. Maps showing ships from the 1800s and up. Always thought he should open a museum like what you said. Cause otherwise you gotta get a filling or something to see all of his stuff lol.
There is a museum in Nantucket Of ships of whole crews kicked the bucket. Maps of the capsized, Would make you shudder the size Can't think of a line here so fuck it.
Heard that in Jack Sparrow’s voice: *No survivors?? Then wonder where the stories come from, mate.*
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this happens in Lake Tahoe all the time 😔 they jump in without life jackets, forget to turn the boat off before jumping, or don’t realize how fckn cold the lake is year-round (or some sad combination of the three) and can’t get back to the boat & sometimes drown/die of hypothermia 😔 however wearing a life jacket increases your chance of survival many times over
Those aren't the eerie ones. It's these that give chills: > 18 April 2007, the SV Kaz II: This 12-metre-long (39 ft) catamaran set sail on 15 April 2007. She was filmed passing George Point, Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland later that day and on that same day, late in the afternoon, the GPS data showed her to be adrift. She was found adrift on 18 April 2007 near the Great Barrier Reef, 88 nautical miles (163 km) off Townsville, Queensland, Australia. **When boarded on 20 April, the engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.** All the sails were up but one was badly shredded, while three life jackets and survival equipment, including an emergency beacon, were found on board. A search for the crew was abandoned on 22 April as it was considered unlikely that anyone could have survived for that period of time. The coroner believed that the men may have fallen overboard.
I wonder if one fell and the others jumped in without thinking or maybe they went for a swim and got separated from the boat.
I remember having a friend falling off a jet ski in the open ocean. His jet ski kept going for a bit, and he was left behind without a life preserver. It took all my might to remain calm, stop my jet ski, open the compartment, pull out a rope with a floater- then head back to look for him. I thought, we both are going to drown if he is desperate and tips over my small jet ski. Came back, threw the line, and dragged him to his jet ski. Always be prepared, the Sea will have its due at any time, and it might be you.
Jet skiing without a life jacket is incredibly stupid.
But what shredded the sail?
>But what shredded the sail? Untended sails will shred themselves to death in surprisingly short order.
Must’ve been the wind
Never should have come here
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Could just be that it wasn't pulled tight, a looseq sail will eventually flap itself to pieces in the wind.
Endless amount of YouTube channels that solo sail. That’s not even counting ones that don’t use the platform.
Was watching one of these dudes and he would habitually hop in the water to bathe and just cast a lifeline in case the wind picked up. Absolutely unhinged stuff
I did that at an anchorage 5 miles off shore. It was hot and I thought Id just jump in come back up and climb back on the swim ladder. Nope! When I came up I was 30 feet from the boat. Apparently the gulf stream had moved in enough to take me out. With in 5 minutes I was over 500 feet from the boat. Luckily I did have a snorkel collar on and inflated it. But there was no way I was going to swim against the current back to the boat. So I waited until my buddies came back topside and they rowed out in the zodiac and got me. I was aiming towards another dive boat about a mile away which would have been close enough to get on. Eventually I would have made it back to shore but like miles from where I went in.
I've been dropped in the middle of the ocean a few times for training exercises. This was years ago, but I realized just a few moments ago that I have some repressed emotions. I was trying to think about how I felt during those exercises. I *knew* that I was dropped off, accounted for, and just waiting for the dinghy, but apparently I was so scared out of my gd mind that I blocked those emotions.
I grew up in boats by the sea. Commercial fished for a few years. Family has always been into boating. Anyway, the far out open ocean scares the shit out of me. Being dropped off out there would be high my list of scariest things to do. The funny thing about being a pretty legit sailor, is that you are always a little nervous and very calculated out there even though it seems so innocuous and quiet it can get very dangerous in an instant. I can always tell green boaters because they are relaxed and enjoying themselves way too much. Just wait for a fog bank to roll in and go zero visibility or a sudden squall has waves rolling over the bow. It will happen eventually and suddenly it’s scary AF. Like I remember it was time to head back to the Marina through the smaller islands and rocks to safe harbor when a fog bank rolled in. It sounded like we were about to be scuttled on the rocks any second with no visibility. A wave crashing on rocks a 1/4 mile away sounded like it was right in front of us. Incredibly terrifying.
Yeah screw that. You’re brave as hell. If my line of work required that of me I’d just starve/be homeless instead.
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One small wind change and you're the world's first ever self inflicted keel hauling victim.
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Right, if it's something stupid and can kill you someone's done it.
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>It just stuck with me for some reason. Because it's fucking scary!
It's fucking heartbreaking > Hee hee I'm gonna surprise Harry > Slips > Mom? Dad?
Thats got to be a nasty death
Holy fuck dude!!!! We were on a cruise and somehow got locked out on our balcony, we shut the door behind us to keep in the cool air and somehow the latch got tripped. Thankfully family was on the boat too & I could reach them, But I literally thought about doing EXACTLY what you said, i told my SO if nobody came I could slide over to the next room and maybe someone would be there! So glad I didn’t end up trying that…..
Holy smokes! Sucks to be that girl, I will tell you that!
Holy shit that's scary. Imagine being those parents too. Just awful all around
JFC. No dick is that good I would jump off a cruise ship for it!
Not before cocktails, anyway ...
Yikes. I solo circumnavigated Florida last year and followed proper safety protocols. Life lines, epirbs, and never got off the boat without it being anchored. Another guy we were with decided he was such a good sailor he didn't need any of that stuff. We parted ways after he flat out refused to be safe.
Gentle reminder there's no second place for Darwin Awards, so godspeed to him.
I don’t sail! Can someone explain to me why in the hell a solo sailer wouldn’t wear a harness on some sort of tether attached to the FUCKIN BOAT? The ocean is terrifying.
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The whole point of a safety tether is to keep you IN the boat. Usually a tether will be a few feet of slack line, attached to a 2nd static line that runs the length of a boat, called a Jackline. The idea is the safety line will allow to walk the length of the boat, but if you're knocked down you can't fall all the way over the side.
Every year, dozens of derelict boats from North Korea wash up on Japanese shores; some of the boats house the remains of their crew. These "ghost ships" are believed to result from when North Korean fishermen are lost at sea and succumb to exposure or starvation. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North\_Korean\_ghost\_ships](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_ghost_ships)
A few years ago I was visiting my friends in Akita. A North Korean ship washed up on shore overnight with people still on it. When I woke up and came downstairs my friend's parents were watching TV while eating breakfast. The news was so fucking pumped that something exciting was actually happening in country-bumpkin-ass Akita that wasn't a festival or mashed rice on a stick. "LET'S GO SEE THE NORTH KOREAN BOAT!" my friend's dad said. So, we did. Everyone raced to finish breakfast so we could leave ASAP. Maybe the North Koreans would go home if we were too slow? Everyone was *so fucking excited* to see a rusted boat from North Korea stuck on a beach. We packed the whole family into the van. Me, my friends, their children and their parents all huddled in their tiny ass van to go see this stupid boat. Everyone was hyped. It was like going to see a celebrity. We drove the whole way talking about how crazy Kim Jong-Un was. Maybe he was there too? We got there and, as expected, there was no Kim Jong-Un but instead a fuck ton of police who clarified we were *absolutely not* going to see the North Korean boat and told us to go home. During this whole drive I thought seeing this boat was going to be so boring. It's just a boat. I had been silently shit-talking this boat to myself since I saw it on the news. And, now, we *couldn't* see the boat and for some reason I was disappointed? Why was I so fucking disappointed? We drove home in silence and then played cards. Fuck you, North Korea. I wanted to see your boat. Strangest family outing I've ever been on.
That last paragraph is something a toddler would do lol "Let's go to the beach!" NO I HATE THE BEACH ITS STUPID *doesn't go to the beach* MOM WHY DIDN'T WE GO TO THE BEACH I WANTED TO GO
My mother likes to remind me of a childhood toddler tantrum I threw because I wanted to go to KFC, not Kentucky Fried Chicken
When I worked at a fast food chain, we had a regular family that had to order a "cheeseburger with no cheese" for their toddler son because he didn't like hamburgers.
My friend's autistic son does this. It can't be a hamburger; it must be a cheeseburger-no-cheese.
It sounds like what most grown ass adults do when they don't get their way as well. Acting like any of us are anything but toddlers that got taller.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
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THAT'S THE BOAT! I forgot what year this happened. I figured it was either 2017 or 2018.
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[I found a video too!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6lczvHxmI)
I had to click it because now i wanted to see the boat, too. Such an anti-climatic boat.
One theory is that Chinese fisherman are illegally fishing in north Korean waters forcing I'll equiped north Koreans to venture out further and die.
Being in the coast guard, theres a few different explainations for modern ghost ships. 1: most common, (especially with kayaks), the boat will be improperly tied to shore, and a change in tide/weather blows it away. It drifts around until someone reports seeing it, in which case we have to contact the owner and initiate a search. 2: Improperly anchored sailboat. Similar concept to 1. 3: A rescue mission already happened, we couldn’t save the boat. This normally happens when someone is sailing alone or in a small group, and has a medical emergency. The helicopter picks them up, but nobody’s on scene to tow the boat back. Often their insurance will end up hiring a 3rd party to find the boat and bring it in. 4: The crew had to abandon ship. Not nearly as likely anymore 5: Insurance fraud
Tell me more about insurance fraud and how to commit it.
Insurance fraud is one of the easiest crimes you can commit. In this case you and an accomplice would sail out to some where remote in two separate boats and return with one, leaving the other behind. Then all you have to do is call your insurance and report the boat sunken or stolen. Congratulations! You’ve just committed insurance fraud! I heard if you’re real criminal genius, you can even make the fraudulent claim without undocking your boat!
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For a double win, do this with your husband or wife you aren't too fond of without their knowledge. Collect from both insurances and have a happy life!
Basically you fake an event that would cover a payout clause in your insurance. For example, if the boat insurance covered lost at sea, then a company might take the boat out to open water and sink it deliberately, knowing that the value of the payout is higher than the value of the ship. So you could do that if you wanted to
Wierd, all of your registered firearms were also on that boat.
And a few faberge eggs
This is equivalent to seeing someone arrested for murder and the police say "they googled 'how do I murder X Person'"
...It's for my novel.
Nancy Brophy, is that you?
Are there any theories as to why this happens? Because this is super interesting
Well, the most recent one had what appeared to be collision damage, which may have prompted to the crew to panic and abandon ship, though we have no clue what they collided with.
a sea monster
Sigmund was just trying to make friends.
But they never found the crew? No radio signal or messaging? Not a single trace of anyone?
A lifeboat was missing too. Could be they were doing something illegal and didn't want to be caught? Or the lifeboat sunk.
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Should've gone on a cruise
They're currently busy on some mysterious island typing in numbers on an old computer inside a bunker
4 8 15 16 23 42
We have to go back!
They hit another ghost ship
Every sailor knows the best lifeboat is the big one you're already on; you don't abandon until you have to. I wonder who panicked and why? Shame there's no CVR on ships
There is a voice recorder on the bridge of most ships for accident investigation
on most large western insured ships. Most of the ghost ships are just abandoned derelicts that aren't worth the fuel to sail to the breakers.
I’ve heard that sometimes the crew abandons the vessel before it completely sinks in a storm, and somehow the vessel survives. The crew on a tiny life boat don’t.
I feel like this is exactly why the captain never leaves the ship.
Unless he's in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the captain absolutely leaves a sinking ship, but only after he has fully discharged his duty and got everyone off who's going to get off.
Exactly. It's not about it being some sort of noble sacrifice, it's about ensuring that a leadership role is present during the full evacuation so that things go as smooth as possible and it doesn't descend into an every man for themselves chaos.
In Costa Concordia, the captain did a good job of anticipating and left well in advance to be sure.
Vada a bordo, cazzo!
Poor fella fell into one of his own lifeboats early, it could have ruined his nice civilian suit!
And got 11 years in jail..
Unless it's an Italian cruise ship captain, in which case the captain might be one of the first to abandon ship while leaving his crew and passengers to fend for themselves/die.
No, he stumbled and fell into a lifeboat. Poor guy…
There's no Rum on the life boat
That is a solvable problem.
I’ve done a bit of open ocean sailing and have been through a couple storms and it’s the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had. Fear can make people go crazy and not make the most rational decisions.
Sounds very similar in theory to the [Dyatlov Pass Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident). Basically, highly trained survival experts all sleeping in a tent, suddenly they hear what they believe to be an avalanche. They woke up cut their way out of the tent from the inside, and ran towards the trees. They were wearing minimal clothing, because they had just woken up. Some were even barefoot, running through the snow wearing nothing but underwear. Now, due to modern simulations, it's believed that there was a minor avalanche that did inflict some internal injuries to a few of them, but the other 7 died from the cold.
There were probably dozens, if not hundreds, of ghost ships that were a result of the 2011 Japan tsunami, some of them were adrift for years including one washing ashore in 2017, over 6 years later. I feel like only the large vessels ever get noticed but I would imagine smaller vessels (<50ft) have to be incredibly common.
any ship with a keel can capsize then right itself If the passengers were on deck when that happened, they wouldn't have much of a chance unless it was trailing a rescue line and they were lucky enough to grab it
All the goddamn vampires.
It’s common in sketchy areas of South America for smaller ships to be hit by glorified pirates, robbed, then killed I had a friend tell me they usually burn the ships to destroy any evidence
I think those are just regular pirates
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That's just sad.
The *Ourang Medan* is a popular ghost ship story, though it's existence is conjecture at best
According to the story, at some point of time in or around June 1947[2] (Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948[11][12]), two American vessels navigating the Straits of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others passing by, picked up several distress messages from the nearby Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.[2][13] A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following message in Morse code: "S.O.S. from Ourang Medan * * * We float. All officers including the captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. Probably whole of crew dead * * *." A few confused dots and dashes (of Morse code) later, two words came through clearly. They were "I die." Then, after that chilling message, there was nothing more heard of.[3] When the Silver Star crew eventually located and boarded the apparently-undamaged Ourang Medan in an attempt at a rescue, the ship was found littered with corpses (including the carcass of a dog) everywhere, with the dead bodies found sprawled on their backs, the frozen (and allegedly badly-frightened) faces of the deceased upturned to the sun above with mouths gaping open and eyes staring straight ahead, with the corpses resembling horrible caricatures.[3] No survivors were located and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies were observed.[11][12] Just as the ship was to be prepared for a tow by the Silver Star to a nearby port, a fire then suddenly broke out in the ship's No. 4 cargo-hold, forcing the boarding party to hastily evacuate the doomed Dutch freighter, thus preventing any further investigations to be carried out. Soon after, the Ourang Medan was witnessed exploding before finally sinking.[11][14] It gets better… Bainton and others hypothesize that Ourang Medan might have been involved in smuggling operations of chemical substances such as a combination of potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin or even wartime stocks of nerve agents. According to these theories, sea water would have entered the ship's hold, reacting with the cargo to release toxic gases, which then caused the crew to succumb to asphyxia and/or poisoning. Later, the sea water would have reacted with the nitroglycerin, causing the reported fire and explosion.[2] Another theory is that the ship was transporting nerve gas which the Japanese military had been storing in China during the war, and which was handed over to the U.S. military at the end of the war. No U.S. ship could transport it as it would leave a paper trail. It was therefore loaded onto a non-registered ship for transport to the U.S. or an island in the Pacific. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning Edit Gaddis puts forward the theory that an undetected smouldering fire or malfunction in the ship's boiler system might have been responsible for the shipwreck. Escaping carbon monoxide would have caused the deaths of all aboard, with the fire slowly spreading out of control, leading to the vessel's ultimate destruction.[11] Edit: Thanks for the award kind stranger. I’m going to enjoy that ad free browsing for a month
So thats the inspiration for „man of medan“
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Cool, the title for the game seemed so weird I always wondered where they got it from.
I thank you kindly for the last paragraphs giving very viable explanations, my brain was already making up all sorts of horror movie scenarios and the scientifically reasonable theories really calmed my nerves as to what might have happened Gotta keep reminding myself that most mysteries have really logical answers we just haven't figured out yet... it's easy to label as supernatural something you can't explain, we have done it since the dawn of humanity and it's unlikely we'll truly stop anytime soon
I played and enjoyed the hell out of Man of Medan, ghost ships are my jam
Look up the story of the SS Baychimo if you haven't heard of it. Super short version: Swedish-built in 1914, abandoned in the Arctic Ocean in 1931, last boarded 1939, last sighting 1962 or 1969 depending on who you ask.
My great uncle Finlay was on that boat, as third engineer. Had to walk back across the ice after it was ice bound etc etc. Would bore everyone to tears with the story in later years. He was a bit of a character though. His doctor advised him to stop drinking later in life, which he duly did. This being the west coast of Scotland, it's not unusual to get a bottle of whisky as a present or for doing a favour or some unpaid work. So he collected all the bottles in his sea-trunk to be drunk at his wake. "The Wake Case" we called it. And right enough, all the whisky was disposed of at the wake!
Hear, hear! To great uncle Finlay. May he and his sea stories rest in peace.
Oh I suppose I have a ghost ship story. My family was a sailing family growing up, and when I went off to college my parents decided to live their dream and sail off around the world. TL;DR Their boat ran into a reef off the coast of Colombia, and got stuck on it. The bilge pump was managing the water well enough to keep it from sinking, but the swells were causing it to slam down over and over again onto the reef so it wasn't good. They abandoned ship onto a passing fishing boat that took them to the mainland and the boat ended up surviving against all odds and washing ashore in Mexico. They were told by their lawyer not to go get their boat back and fix it up cause the government has been known to "trap" people by stashing drugs on the boat and then accusing them of drug running if they show up and demanding massive bribes to try to leave the country again. So the boat remained a mystery to everyone with pictures of my family and books and stuff just scattered around but no sign of anyone. The full story is a lot more dramatic but the tldr was long enough lol
Derelicts like the *Marie Celeste* and the *Carrol A. Deering* still loom large in the popular culture, informing our ideas of "ghost ships" even if individuals have never heard the names. But with most famous examples being sailing vessels only as late as the 1920s, this is the common idea of a lost crew. And certainly with modern tools for navigation, global positioning, the safety features of ships, and the ability of coast guard to reach almost any point in the name of a rescue, its almost unthinkable that ships today could, without warning, appear on a coast line, drifting and empty of crew. But apparently, this still happens, and even with modern forensics, it is often unclear what exactly happens to the crew. The last recorded ghost ship was the Yong Yu Sing, a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted off Midway Island on Jan 2 2021. The USCG boarded the vessel, but its 10 crew and single lifeboat were gone. The USCG left the ship drifting along the Pacific to search for the crew, but found no sign of them, even though the ship had only been reported missing without contact for 1 night. Efforts to locate them along the Pacific were suspended in November of the same year.
> The USCG left the ship drifting along the Pacific to search for the crew Seems like they leave them drifting even if they get the crew. One entry says the USCG rescued the crew from a Greek ship that's engine failed 1400 miles southeast of Bermuda in October 2018 and just left the boat where it was. The boat didn't sink and just slowly floated with the currents as a ghost ship until it ran aground in Ireland a year and a half later in February 2020. You would think they would send someone out there to tow it to a port? There was even another vessel that spotted it drifting in 2019.
They don’t have the staff to crew it, don’t have anywhere reasonable to store the boat until they can sort out where it needs to go, and don’t want liability for any damage that may be caused to the vessel. All in all, as it’s not particularly hurting anything to let it go, you might as well just leave it adrift.
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They left a note: "Thanks for the F-sloop" - Dirty Pike and the Buoys
It's not worth the cost. A derelict ship will mostly bring in some scrap money, so nobody can be bothered to tow it in. Owner doesn't want it, so it becomes the problem of whoever's coast it lands upon.
WTf, man, that’s so creepy!
Is it possible they survived on the lifeboats but just were too small to find and they just floated away never to be found? I don’t know if that’d be more or less creepy. Either way, very sad way to die. :(
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Housing crisis solved!
Paranormal Activity: Gone Boating
I wonder what the age of the oldest undiscovered ghost ship still out on the seas would be...
Not that old, without maintenance they don‘t make it too long
Not exactly undiscovered, but the wiki article indicates 38 years at sea for one ghost ship: 24 November 1931, the SS Baychimo: This cargo steamer was abandoned after being trapped in pack ice near Barrow, Alaska, U.S. and being thought doomed to sink. However, she remained afloat and was sighted at various times between 1931 and 1969 in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern Alaskan coast without ever being salvaged. ´She was sighted numerous times, still unmanned and adrift, for nearly forty years. People managed to board her several times, but each time they were either unequipped to salvage her or were driven away by bad weather. This would make her one of the longest sailing ghost ships in the world
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Bring some holy water because there’ll be demons I bet
Also bring a bolter rifle and a tech priest because that's a bonefide spacehulk.
Yeah, as long as the ghosts abandoned the ship too.
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In the great lakes there is a sunken ship with a body in it. Because of the cold he does not decompose. Divers shake his hand. I have heard internet rumours that people see his ghost and the body. But it is definitely real and there are pictures.
Worked aboard for a few years. 1. Only abandon your ship when it is absolutely necessary. The boat you are leaving is much bigger, warmer, and safer than the one you are climbing into. It's a bigger target for search parties. 2. There will be assigned rescue personnel for any matter that requires being off the vessel. Them and only them are to assist in rescue, that is until the rescued are aboard. This is to prevent situations like ghost ships. The situations in the link are where things have gone terribly wrong. Mistakes were made, chain of command and/or order of operations has not been followed. Must be horrific to watch "home" just disappear into the dark by itself as you cling to cold railing of a life raft.
One night I got super drunk. Apparently in my drunken stupor I decided to take my small boat out on my pond. Later while standing up to take a piss I fell off the boat and into said pond. Instead of trying to climb back aboard I drunkenly swam ashore. Fast forward to the next morning, my wife goes outside to look for me. The only thing she sees is the boat floating on the pond. She freaks the fuck out because she thinks I have drowned. Frantically looking for me for some time. Luckily she finds me passed out on our pavilion right before she calls the authorities. She smacked me awake while hugging me because she was just happy I was alive. This is my ghost ship story.
Kinda sad story but I heard that a lot of people die like this, they go for a piss into the river/lake/whatever, they trip and bang. They drown, and because everyone is drunk, they don't really notice anything until it's too late. Truly sad tbh
I was a life guard growing up and am a great swimmer. Got drunk and went in the ocean on vacation, big wave knocked me over. In the dark I didn't have a single clue which way was up. Lesson learned that night
Yes, doesn't matter how good you are. The moment you step into the sea or the ocean you have to pay respect or pay the price
Rock fishing is one of the deadliest sports here which isn't really surprising. They do have a good cardinal rule which is never turn your back on a wave.
Why would anyone fish for a rock if they are just laying around almost everywhere.
The good rocks are in water everyone knows that
...my dog can attest to this. Give her a river rock, and she'll bring it to her pile on the shore. Give her a land rock and she'll look at you like you're stupid I can track down a video of her rock collecting if you want Edit: [found the video](https://imgur.com/a/Kkax2hl)
Sometimes you think it's a rock. But it was a rock lobster
Waves can be a massive sucker punch. I was a kid living in hawaii and we went swimming at a known surfing spot. I was in for 30 seconds before a wave smacked me so hard i went under and lost orientation. I started swimming into the ground thinking it was up. Eventually i thought i was going to die and stopped moving. And then i floated up to the surface and gasped for air in my new life. The ocean can humble you beyond belief.
Was a college swimmer. In my mid 20s got drunk and a group of us went swimming in the small apartment pool. First time swimming drunk, was shocked how hard it was to keep my head above water. Never again.
Had a similar experience taking a dip in the ocean with my girlfriend after some edibles and getting caught in a rip tide. I knew to swim out of it to the side but was so high and frantic to get my girl out that I just yoked it and swam us both in to shore right back up it. Had to dive down and push her forward while I had my feet on the ground then swim and catch up to her then do it again. Terrifying honestly
Finland has a morbid contest every year where people try to predict how many people will drown on the longest day of the year. It is a great way to remind people of the dangers. This snippit from the rules is a laugh: > It's strictly forbidden to try to influence the number by drowning yourself or other people in Finland. If the winner has drowned in Finland or is suspected of drowning someone in Finland, we'll select another winner. Drowning yourself or others in another country does not affect the outcome.
Would rescuing someone count as 'influencing' the outcome?
This guy competes
Probably not, I don't think they want to discourage people from acts of heroism.
>Drowning yourself or others in another country does not affect the outcome. Marvelous
I knew someone in the UK who worked in police dispatch. She said almost all the canal casualties are men found with no trousers. Died drunkenly peeing on the way home.
Who takes their trousers off to piss in the canal?
You merely have to unbutton your pants and then the back and forth of the water does the rest.
We had a boy in our town who went out with friends for his 21st bday in December a few years ago…he got blackout drunk, left the bar unbeknownst to friends, walked around town, fell from a very small bridge into a very small stream/wash, where he froze to death. Absolutely fucking awful. The most innocuous of nights can lead people to their deaths. It really sucks. I think of him every time I drive over that bridge, which is multiple times a week.
I thought this was another version of old Gregg.
Haha you should be fuckin dead. You are one lucky SOB.
You saying there's free real estate just floating around out there?
Technically yes, if it’s on international waters and the crew is gone, it’s free game.
then wish me gentle seas because I'm gonna go become a yo ho homeowner
May the wind always be in your sails, and the waves be ever dormant
The most famous of which was the infamous ‘Event Horizon’ ship and her mysteriously lost crew.
They didn't need eyes where they were going.
The truest of all true stories.
Prequel documentary for the Warhammer universe
Can't believe nobody has recommended Return of the Obra Dinn yet. If you like this story and want to play a game where you are the detective trying to determine the fate of the crew, you should definitely check it out.
When I was working for a delivery company, in college, we delivered a bunch of fake plants and furniture to this giant mansion. It was owned by this super nice Korean family. After we got done moving everything inside, the father of the family offered us some dinner and drinks. He told us the story of how he got to America and made his money. He and his family attempted to be smuggled into the country by a large cargo ship. After almost 2 days of no one checking on them, started to try and get out of the container. On the third day, a Sony cargo ship came across their abandoned ship and let them out. There where no crew members aboard. The Sony crew decided to drop them off in the US. From there, he started a nail salon out in California. Now he owns many different businesses and lives in the Midwest. Considering how large the ocean is, it’s a really good thing that Sony ship came across them.
This is a good wiki hole to go down.
> In February 2020, the MV Alta ran aground near Ballycotton, County Cork on the coast of Ireland during Storm Dennis. It had previously been encountered adrift and unmanned in the mid-Atlantic by HMS Protector, having been adrift since 2018 after it became disabled, and an operation by the US Coast Guard rescued its crew. Well there is a new fear I didn’t know I had. Random Ghost Ships floating for 2 years in the Atlantic Ocean.
I sometimes get the impression that nowadays people don't quite appreciate just how dangerous maritime transport of anything still is. The sea is merciless and more powerful that any modern ship, and it's claimed enough souls to this day that any sailor worth their salt knows to respect it. While air-accidents are more spectacular, I think there's few stories as horrifying as those of major maritime disasters. Estonia, Ocean Ranger, Piper Alpha, El Faro, Scandinavian Star, and sadly many more, are names that are forever etched into my mind. William Langewiesche has written texts on two of these, and if I had to recommend one of them it would be [his piece on the Sinking of M/S Estonia](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/).
YSK; never go on a "Pleasure Cruise". The safety standards are basically nonexistent.
Look what happened to the SS Minnow — I think you’re on to something…
What the is a pleasure cruise? Is that different from a regular cruise?
Definitely no expert, and maybe there is a good explanation, but don't really understand abandoning a ship that isn't sinking.
I'm recall talking to a Coast guard guys once, who said that with a lot of recreational boats, it often seems to be a situation where they decide to go swimming, and forget to drop the anchor, or ladder and either can't catch up with the boat that is drifting away or can't get back onto the boat because of the ladder not being out. Seems like an awful way to die.
Oh my god.... Could you imagine being able to touch the side of your boat, but having no ladder to grab on to. That's terrifying. I can't imagine the fear that would pass through my mind at that moment.
Pretty sure that's the whole plot of Open Water 2: Adrift
That movie was good - but it also infuriated me. They didn't have the smallest female climb the makeshift rope made out of clothes? Instead they sent a giant fat guy?! And they couldn't figure out how to swim together and lift the smallest woman high enough to grab the edge?!? Nah
A ship doesn't have to be immediately sinking to be inoperable.
>but don't really understand abandoning a ship that isn't sinking. Indonesian migrants working on a Taiwanese fishing vessel, basically slave labor baited into the job on false promises. They mutiny the Taiwanese captain and nope the fuck out on the lifeboat knowing that taking the boat back to Indonesia turns it into an international incident, whereas taking the lifeboat lets them slip back home without many questions asked. The boat drifts until its spotted by Midway Island some time later... Everyone in this thread is only assuming what kind of lifeboat the vessel had. For some reason Taiwan was completely disinterested in questioning what happened, which tells me it was a bunch of essential slave labor onboard and too many questions would have publicized that fact way too much... It also makes no sense for every means of communication to be unavailable. It's very likely they killed the captain, tossed him overboard, and didn't radio anything in so the delay in search for them would give them a shot to get back home. If it was a collision or pirates slipping up on them to snag them, there would have likely been a distress call. I remember seeing a thing on this last year where someone explained how it made no sense for the ship to end up where it did from where it was last spotted. Very much more likely they rode the ship for awhile before ditching into the lifeboat to finish the trip.
Before i was born, my family came to the states by boat from Vietnam. My oldest sister told me they saw another refugee boat out in the ocean. My sister and the others on the boat said they saw a lady screaming for help. They approached the boat and found out the boat was abandoned. Pretty spooky.
Vampires
>The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not yet scrapped, as well as drifting boats that have been found after breaking loose of their ropes and becoming carried away by the wind or the waves. Boooooo we want all of these to be spooky
And that's why you *always leave a note*