Hijacked Ship Disappears

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This 40,000 tonne ship was apparently hijacked in the Baltic Sea, but nobody knew this until after it had been cleared by Dover Coastguard on July 28th to pass through The English Channel, two days later it disappeared.
Full story here:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/13/dead-in-water-115875-21593204/
It worries me that somebody is packing this ship full of explosives for a terrorist attack, the cargo was only £1million of timber bound for Algeria. With all the spy satellites that we have nowadays, how could this ship just disappear? Unless it sank of course!
 
I think the anonymous expert is being rather alarmist - so far, very few seaborne hijackees have been killed, and they've been taken by Somali pirates, and held for handsome ransom.

Doesn't seem that whoever hijacked this ship has made a demand for money yet, does it? Until the facts are in, everything's conjecture - including whether the crew were in on a phoney 'hijack' in an effort to extort money for themselves. Anything's possible at present, but saying they could be dead is pretty unhelpful - especially for their families back home, who must clearly be wondering the same thing.

It doesn't say much for the use of satellites and transponders (I've forgotten what the thing onboard is called, but it's similar to an aircraft's recognition blip), does it? But if it was deliberately disabled, for whatever reason, it's pretty poor that the land-based tracking system failed to see its absence from the screen.
 
Exactly!
Whether or not the crew is still alive is a bit of a smoke screen in my opionion, the important thing is that they don't don't know who is on it or where it is.
This points to some people with enough skill and inteligence to bypass safety system etc. Especially worrying for it to disappear in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the World.
 
Sighted 400 miles off the Cape Verde islands!!!!

Bloody hell!!!

They've taken some ruddy great ship in the Baltic, sailed it all the way through the English Channel, out through the Bay of Biscay and down to the African coast. That's pretty impressive by any standard
 
This is just another government cock up, something serious must have been on that ship that Brown didn't want the media getting hold off.
 
What has this ship got to do with us or our goverment, There is no conection what so ever with England unless it may have been insured at Lloyds of London,

I don't think it has anything other than timber sfter all it did not sail from Russier it's just the crew that come from there no bowt lowley paied, it migdt be called the English Channel but it,s as much French as it is English. also they would not be steering the ship the crew would it might be some doggey deeling going on timer to Africa ?
 
Andy you'll be surprised what governemnt get up to, tampering at murder scenes etc
 
Depends, I wouldnt believe any figures the government give out as they are also tampered with to suit what they are campaigning for.
 
When you put the crew origins with deport and import locations you can't help but wonder out loud!
 
Finnish authorities have had to answer questions about material which is rumoured to have been placed on a missing ship.

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has dismissed suggestions that the Arctic Sea, which is supposedly under the control of pirates, had nuclear material on board.

British and Finnish newspapers have been carrying stories that have alluded to the ship carrying a secret nuclear cargo.

Radiation and Nuclear Safety officials have said radiation tests were conducted on the ship at a port in Finland before it began its intriguing voyage.

Russia and NATO have joined forces to pursue the Arctic Sea, which is owned by a Russian-run company in Finland.

The cooperating forces are now scouring the Atlantic for the ship, which left Finland on July 23rd on its way to Algeria with a cargo of lumber, estimated to be worth 1.20 million euros.

It was last seen off the coast of Cape Verde in the west African archipelago.

On the weekend, Finnish police said that the ship's owners had received a ransom demand for the Arctic Sea and its crew.

While a ransom figure has not been released, insiders have suggested the amount is around
$US1.5 million.

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Pull the other one! of course there is suspicious material on that ship, they won't come out in the media and admit it though will they.
 
It looks as dodgy as we mused earlier that it might be. The, er, 'hostages' were all fit, well, and fed, and apparently 'well treated', as they might be if they were in on a phony hijack all along. I wonder if those arrested will ever be seen again? The Russians aren't likely to worry about infringing prisoners' rights, once they've got them onto their soil.
 
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