So the Lyubov Orlova seems to of went down on the open North Atlantic, always a sad thing no matter the ship but I don’t see why a few enterprising individuals couldn’t of found a tug and some creative engineers and go grab that thing and take her someplace and put her up on Ebay or whatever for auction? Wouldn’t that be a neat project? Even if you only covered expenses it’d be a heck of a plus to your resume!
what surprises me is that there are no sighting reports of the derelict over all these months? surely some ship has gone by it?
I say it has foundered along with all the rats!
Maybe the cannibal rats have evolved to the point that they have developed stealth technology. They’re just biding their time until they take over the world.
[QUOTE=captrob;129168]Maybe the cannibal rats have evolved to the point that they have developed stealth technology. They’re just biding their time until they take over the world.[/QUOTE]
We all know a trained monkey could do our job… Maybe the rats stepped up their game.
“This is the engine room; to operate, all you need is any group of well-trained monkeys. 99 percent of everything we do is strict routine. Only one percent requires creative intelligence.” - Lt. Keefer, The Caine Mutiny
Actually fellas I did more checking, mostly from wikopedia. Seems in February she sent out a distress call and about the same time some life boats… (must of been life rafts) were found on a beach in Scotland. The NRO (national reconnaissance office) or some countries equivalent tasked a satellite over the area and no sign of the or a ship. presumed to of gone down. Now even if we’d of made it aboard I wonder just how bad the smell of dead ‘‘food’’ would of been and how far gone the eng. rm. would of been ,… would waves just ended up capsizing her??
she may still be afloat as I know something of the folks who peruse such with stereoscopic vision those recon photos, meanwhile: there is a ship of logs adrift off Guam obviously heading for Asia… that one sounds like a win win as they’ll take anything won’t they?
[QUOTE=jimrr;129144]So the Lyubov Orlova seems to of went down on the open North Atlantic, always a sad thing no matter the ship but I don’t see why a few enterprising individuals couldn’t of found a tug and some creative engineers and go grab that thing and take her someplace and put her up on Ebay or whatever for auction? Wouldn’t that be a neat project? Even if you only covered expenses it’d be a heck of a plus to your resume![/QUOTE]
That’s how you make a small fortune… Out of a big one.
Sounds sort of like what my mom might say: “it takes a lot of money to be a rancher”! … thanks, my first laugh of the day.
what a non story here…did anyone in the media ever stop to think that the EPIRBs that went off did so because the ship sank out from underneath them, same as the raft which washed ashore?
This is the UK we’re talking about here where they are supposed to know something about ships?
Pity tho that the ORLOVA is gone…she’d have made into a dandy training ship for KP…they would even have had space for a band room aboard!
Check out this photo taken in June 2012 while tied up in St. John’s. No freakin way this thing still afloat imo.
[QUOTE=Mikey;129269]Check out this photo taken in June 2012 while tied up in St. John’s. No freakin way this thing still afloat imo.[/QUOTE]
They’d’ve been lucky to make it to the scrap yard they were towing it to even if the line hadn’t separated underway, or whatever it is that happened.
The town that owns the beach in Scotland should’ve sent them a ticket for littering. They could’ve made 500$ or whatever the fine’d be.