Yesterday.
Off Ballycotton, Co Cork.
Áine Flynn tweetz:
“A present from Storm Dennis. One of many ghost ships that are sailing around the world. She is one of Davy Jones since 2018. The Alta. Last known sighting off the coast of Africa in 2019. Final resting place Ballyandreen, Ballycotton, East Cork.”
Meanwhile…
Rescue 117 was tasked earlier today to a vessel aground near Ballycotton, Cork. There was nobody on board. Previously the @USCG had rescued the 10 crew members from the vessel back in September 2018. The vessel has been drifting since and today came ashore on the Cork coastline. pic.twitter.com/NbvlZ89KSY
— Irish Coast Guard (@IrishCoastGuard) February 16, 2020
Storm Dennis washes abandoned ‘ghost ship’ onto rocks off Co Cork (Barry Roche, The Irish Times)
Yikes. I hope she doesn’t start breaking up and/or leaking fuel. Lot of protected wildlife around that coast. Letting her drift for 18 months was a bit irresponsible, but hey, ocean trash.
I have never understood why they are left drift, or at least not tagged with a GPS tracker and monitored. Or, as in a case a year or two back, scuttled in deep sea. Possibly something to do with ownership rights and the “Law of the Sea”, or some such.
There seems to be a couple of dozen known cases, not counting the small North Korean fishing ships that sadly end up in Japan with their crew’s bodies aboard.
Sure to be a buyer for it in Libya or somewhere
Floating around since 2018, 2 years at sea.
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