Mystery ghost fleet washes up in Japan: Eleven ships containing 20 dead sailors...

Daily Mail ^ | 27 November 2015 | Imogen Calderwood

[WKUHilltopper]

That ought to teach ‘em not to fish around Fukushima...

[1_Rain_Drop]

11 “ships” and twenty skeletons.
Doing math, that’s 1.81 body per ship.
If they were escaping, why didn’t they “shippool”? aka carpool.

Something tells me that there were many more on board who may have made a fine meal.

Story is weird.
RIP

[JimRed]

...they must have run out of water. “Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink...”

Not even a simple emergency desalination kit aboard?

[Ann Archy]

Still, ELEVEN all at one time!

[ponygirl]

It was not all at once. I think they said 4 washed up last November, and more have been trickling in over the past year. The map shows where they have washed up onshore...all over the west coast of Japan. Then the Japanese went out to do surveillance and found more floating in the Sea of Japan.

[RetSignman]

I wonder if they they thought of using a Geiger counter before climbing all over those boats.

[ponygirl]

Sorry, I read that wrong. It said early November...so they’ve been showing up over one month, not a year.

[MotorCityBuck]

Ghost Ships ehh. Brings to mind a couple of 60’s Japanese sci-fyi movies that had ships. The H-man & Attack of the Mushroom People. I know. Obscure references. ;)

[Calvin Locke]

... 11 ships ....

Perhaps the vessels escaped from the lesser known "Not-So-Great Pacific Garbage Patch"?

[tflabo]

Were the dead and/or dying ones thrown overboard? How long were the dead ones adrift? Interesting— the Norks would be reluctant to report missing sailors.

[tflabo]

Maybe the Dear Eater madman sent some of his ‘enemies’ out to sea to die a long, agonizing death for his enjoyment of revenge. Perhaps...

[Glad2bnuts]

Geiger counter? We have been told that Fukushima was really a nothing event after the first few hours. There is no danger......really. sarcasm intended.....

[sparklite2]

In the movie, George Takei will play the Japanese
scientist tasked to solve the mystery...

while Richard Dreyfuss portrays the token
American who talks like a pirate.

Yoko Shimada is cast as a North Korean
refugee who is actually a spy.

Jim Carrey plays the madcap dictator of
North Korea....

... accompanied by an uncredited sidekick.

[P.O.E.]

[Red Badger]

The Frying Dutchmen?..................

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Anyone who has ever seen a Godzilla movie knows what happened to those ships"

That is so yesterday. LOL

Has anyone checked youtube? Maybe the sailors video taped their trip and posted it online.

Yes, I'm wearing my rio linda hat.

[BobL]

Hard to blame Japan for SENDING A MESSAGE to North Korea (and probably China also, along with us, of course), which is that:

They are not a BUNCH OF IDIOTS and simply will not permit a mass migration of people into their country that simply WANT TO KILL THEM. In other words, send your ‘refugees’ to other countries, as they won’t make it alive to Japan.

[Craftmore]

zombie ping

[Bigg Red]

Teeth could provide enough DNA to identify them.

***
Not if you don’t have a database to compare the results to.

[CyberAnt]

Who says they don’t ..??

We’re not talking about the Middle East here; we’re talking about North Korea. Like all totalitarian countries; they keep impeccable records.