[EternalHope]

It was while searching for stoways that the radiation alert was sounded. Now if there were stoways then and there are none now??? The possibility of an underwater hatch is not all that remote.

The inspectors heard suspicious sounds from the ship's hold. They found nothing to explain the sounds.

I was quite happy to ignore this part of the story until you brought this up. WHAT WERE THE NOISES?

[kinghorse]

Umm here is the ships recent itinerary. As if we needed a reason:

The Palermo Senator is owned by the firm Reederei F. Laeisz of Hamburg, Germany, and regularly plies the route between New York and the Far East.

Its last port of call was Valencia, Spain, but in the past several weeks it has stopped and picked up cargo in a number of ports, including Bandar Abbas, Iran; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Karachi, Pakistan.

[Jim Noble]

>>WHAT WERE THE NOISES?<<

The airlock opening and closing?