See post #76...when posting things from Pravda....I always double check to see if there is additional info. Otherwise...my thought was a rip in time...Bermuda triangle type occurance..LOL
Yeah, it's still true that there's no Izvestia in Pravda, and no Pravda in Izvestia . . .
I've heard lots of horror stories from long-range cruisers (pirates less common than food poisoning, multiple people overboard trying to rescue the first MO, and slipped mooring or dragged anchors), there are more vessels drifting around out there than you would think. It's more usual to find them in the Indian Ocean or the western Pacific than the Med or Caribbean, though.