X Files episode alert!
Arkanside !
original story with pic on May 1st.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=155451975
POLICE forensic experts were last night trying to determine how 11 people, believed to come from an African country, perished at sea.
The badly decomposed bodies were discovered in the cramped cabin of a 20-foot unnamed boat drifting about 70 nautical miles off the Ragged Point, St Philip coastline yesterday morning.
Police and Coast Guard officials were up to press time unable to verify their origin, but preliminary investigations indicated the deceased, believed to be all men, hailed from western Africa.
Among some of the personal items found on board the floating graveyard were an undisclosed sum of euro currency and a document indicating travel aboard one of Senegal's airlines.
Sources close to the investigations believed the men, who were mostly dressed in shorts and colourful jerseys, might have died from hunger and thirst or exposure to the elements.
Earlier reports had indicated that the men were shot.
Sources also believe the men might have been refugees whose vessel went adrift and were probably exposed to the elements for several days before collapsing and dying of hunger.
The drama surrounding one of Barbados' worst cases of mass casualties began last Saturday morning when a fisherman reported the grim discovery to the Coast Guard.
The HMBS Trident, with a joint team of police forensic and Coast Guard officials, set sail from its Willoughby Fort base around 5 p.m., taking close to 18 hours to tow the vessel and its dead crew to land.
"On board the Trident was a forensic team from the Police Force and a medical practitioner. Once the vessel was located, we brought her into Carlisle Bay and handed over to the HMBS Endeavour which subsequently towed the boat to Willoughby Fort," Coast Guard spokesman, Captain Sam Cumberbtach, told a press briefing yesterday.
Sources indicated that because of the stench and "mummified" composition of the bodies, it was difficult to assess their ages.
Officials from the Port Health Department cleared the boat for any possible communicable diseases before forensic officers were allowed to investigate and remove the bodies, which were tagged and bagged for removal by workers from Two Sons Funeral Home.
Dozens of people gathered on the Wickham-Lewis Boardwalk along the Wharf Road to get a glimpse of the boat and the victims.
That's a pretty small "yacht"!
I guess they're getting smaller.
French design?
Sea going " coyotes ". Some SOB's took their money and cast them adrift.
Prayers for the poor souls. May they rest in peace.
Only the dead and fools would sail the ocean in a 20 foot boat!
How very very sad.
I blame the aliens.
What makes it a ghost ship as opposed to a ship with dead bodies on it?
Another reason not to go into the used yacht business in Barbados.
There were 50 people on a 20-foot yacht?
Cue the Theremin.
Poor survival skills.
There had to have been something aboard they could have rigged a still out of for water and they could have fished.
You can make a still out of 2 empty 2 liter jugs if you need to.
If the "impoverished" of the world would work half as hard to fix their own countries as they do to take the "easy" way out we would ALL be so much better off!
Might be hard on the dictators and corrupt looter Gov. Org's of the world, but that would be just fine with me.
Maybe if we deport 3/4 of the invaders who have experienced life in the U.S. they can begin the necessary revolutions.
Or is that what the one worlders and open border lobby really fears?
These "immigrants" keep pleading abject poverty and hardship, but come up with thousands of dollars to pay smugglers.
Maybe they should pool their resources at home instead?
Rant off.
another story from a few weeks ago like this. boat went missing in west florida gulf, washed up on east coast of florida, over 550 miles away and almost 6 months later, with one mumified body on board.