Spooky images as unclaimed Soviet ghost ship drifts unmanned into Irish waters

Sounds like an insurance job to me. Just let it drift. Who cares?

It an Irish ghost ship and as everyone knows all Irish ghost ships belong to Ireland. My understanding is that it is to be towed into an Irish port, renamed ''THE SEANOMELD'', and converted into a care home for all good leprecauns and little people.

Pilib04 you have no clue! Here are the facts. The boat was operated by a russian company who failed to pay their employees and they went bankrupt in St.john's. The company owed the port authority money for docking fees and the employess were stranded in Newfoundland. Thanx to irish newfoundlanders and the local charities the russian employees found passage home. The rat invested boat was setting dockside in Nfld for 22 months. An arabian scrap metal ponzi dealer bought the boat and contracted an american towing company to tow it to the caribbian to have haitians cut it up for a penny on the dollar. Unfortunately the american tow company brought up a tow boat that was unfit to do the job and can't even meet safety regulations to sail in canadian waters and it lost its tow line so now the tow boat is stranded here pending inspection. It has nothing to do with the Canadians! Through the russian owner and the arabian rug merchant part time crap dealer in the slammer!

A good sea home for falconflash,robin foster and anglo.They can practise their bigotry amongst each other

The scrap value may not cover the cost to salvage and cut it up so maybe the Irish military would like to take some target practice and create a new marine ecosystem somewhere off shore. Reference the reef building projects in the caribbean. To dovetail with the previous article about William Harris, Is this how St. Brendan got home? Nice current, the Canada-Ireland express no doubt.

I imagine it's all down to cost. It was probably more economically prudent to abandon it than toe it to the Caribbean. I'm no marine law expert, but it seems the Irish Naval Serive would have a good claim to ownership of this latter day Marie Celeste. Or bill the Russian Government for salvage costs.

How, pray tell, is Canada not responsible for this ship? A Canadian company was towing the ship to the Caribbean! We are to believe that the Canadian handlers, "accidentally" lost control of the Liner or did they just dump it!

wow,loads of scrap value,first one to tow it in gets salvage rights,i believe thats maritime salvage law,must blow my dinghy up,where exactly is it/.

A 35yo ship becomes scrap? Sounds like a bunch of inept caretakers of this conclude they have no responsibility to secure this and get it to port! "Husky Energy" apparently has some legal obligation for this.

If boarded, could this ship now be claimed as "jetsam"???