The mystery of the Russian Ghost Ship

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So apparently a Russian cargo ship went missing in the North Atlantic over 2 weeks ago and this is the first anyone is hearing about it. Supposedly it was carrying almost 2 million dollars worth of Finnish timber and supposedly they had repelled a hijacking attempt earlier in their voyage. Now they've vanished and nobody knows where to, and non-Russian naval authorities have claimed to have seem the vessel at times since their reported disappearance.

NOW practically the whole Russian navy is out looking for this thing, which begs the question: why would Russia, a country still wallowing in some of the First World's most dire economic straits, expend such vast resources to look for a ship that only contained like 10 sailors and 2 million dollars worth of timber?

Unless it wasn't timber at all...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8199514.stm

Seriously, it's not in Russia's nature to execute a dynamic search effort for such a small number of people, they just don't care that much...there has to be ulterior motive

Aug 13 2009 11:38AM

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J-Evs

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ya it is weird for russia to do that, and i still dont see how ships ans tuff just go missing with no trace at all

Aug 13 2009 11:40AM

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urbanjib

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where was the ship haeding?
Anyone else thinking weapons?

Aug 13 2009 11:46AM

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reading the article, it more or less just looks like russia pissed someone off and they wanted their revenge.

it also reminded me of the first mission in call of duty 4, when you board a russian freighter because it has some nuclear weapon related things on board, and winds up getting sunk.

Aug 13 2009 11:48AM

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yyou all must be russian experts. we are no longer in the cold war guys, russia has feelings too

Aug 13 2009 11:54AM

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killabees

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yyou all must be russian experts. we are no longer in the cold war guys, russia has feelings too

Aug 13 2009 11:54AM

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babujib

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hahah thats teh first thing i thought of too

Aug 13 2009 12:03PM

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DrStrangelove

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Russia is an impoverished former #1 super power with only a handful of decently profitable exports...one of which is obviously oil/natural gas, but another is their massive surplus of leftover weapons and weapon components...that ship was probably full of missile canisters or something headed somewhere, if not something worse...

Aug 13 2009 12:12PM

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Fuck Russia, communists don't have feelings.

Aug 13 2009 12:40PM

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Russia is full of humanitarians you stereotyping asshole. I bet it was a shipment full of puppies for orphaned kids, why the hell wouldn't they try to find a ship full of puppies?!!

oh wait, by puppies I mean warheads and by orphans I mean militant groups :)

Aug 13 2009 12:57PM

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Aug 13 2009 1:24PM

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That's a little odd. It must be weapons.

Aug 13 2009 2:50PM

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Hubsta

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Take a look at this part: 'Earlier in its voyage, the ship reported being boarded by up to 10 armed men as it sailed through the Baltic Sea on 24 July, but said the intruders left the vessel on an inflatable boat after 12 hours.' Just beacuse the boat left doesn't mean they're still not onboard...

Aug 13 2009 2:55PM

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^^^^,

Bet they are holding it for ransom or something and the Russians don't want to let it out because they might look bad???

Just a thought.

Aug 13 2009 3:32PM

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this reminds me of that one movie

where that one thing happens

Aug 13 2009 3:47PM

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^^^^^
hahaha, it sounds like some SEALs got in there way...

Aug 13 2009 4:44PM

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pmw

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someone call the

Aug 13 2009 5:11PM

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Turner.

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baahahahhahaahahhahah
that's all, there just looking for their chums!

Aug 13 2009 5:25PM

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J-Evs

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it wont let me embed the link but here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/missing_ship

Aug 14 2009 2:05PM

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I bet these guys have something to do with it...

Aug 14 2009 2:18PM

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Brenone

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apparently they found it............that sneaky KGB

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32417645/ns/world_news-europe

Aug 14 2009 3:52PM

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the masked men that boarded it were looking for drugs, after gathering the crew of 15 they searched the ship for drugs, then left, according to a report before the ship disappeared, this highjacking occured off the coast of sweeden

so im guessing they were smuggling drugs.... whether the russian navy knows about it (drugs) or not

Aug 14 2009 4:03PM

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1.Russia is a more pure form if democracy than the US

2.Russia's military is in such decay that they have no chance in finding the missing ships

3.Russia doesnt have the money to look for a ship only carring 2 million dollars and 10 crew

4.During the collapse of the ussr about ten nuclear weapons went missing

5. I speculate that Russian scientist sold nuclear weapons secrets to Korea, India and Pakistan

Russia doesnt give a fuck about nuclear weapons. This makes me think theirs not any Nuclear weapons on board but something far worse such as a "super pague" a man made combination of the worst biological agents known to man that would have a high percentage of death and would be transmitted easily even more so then the common cold. Somthing that this realeased in a major city would spread all over the glob in a few days. Its funny how remence the cold war even today might kill all of us.

CONVERT TO ISLAM AND YOU WILL BE SPARED

Aug 14 2009 4:16PM

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OH FUCK

this was my first reaction

Aug 14 2009 6:58PM

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pmw

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no way! the shepards are to strait edged. it was these sneaky bastards!!!!!

Aug 14 2009 8:21PM

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Aug 14 2009 8:29PM

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They found the ship, it went missing for three days, no biggie, maybe the shipping company will make sure they install trackers now, or just have them turned on.

Aug 14 2009 10:05PM

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i gotta say, its no coincidence this incident comes so soon after shark week. it's gotta be killer russian great whites with nuclear warheads, im fucking sure of it.

Aug 14 2009 11:24PM

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boner killer

i still say sharks were involved

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