Rat-Infested Ghost Ship Heading For Britain

[Jazzy]

Look out, Britain. There may be a ghost ship full of cannibalistic rats drifting toward the coast.

After The Sun reported the Lyubov Orlova may be heading for the United Kingdom following a bout of winter storms, many wondered what has become of the abandoned Russian cruise ship.

The vessel was set adrift in January 2013 after its line broke while it was being towed from Canada to the Dominican Republic. The abandoned ship was last spotted near Ireland in February, and the Canadian Coast Guard registered a signal from the Lyubov Orlova about 800 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in March.

However, the ghost ship seemed to mysteriously disappear shortly after that. Some assume the Lyubov Orlova has sunk, while others believe it's still floating aimlessly in the North Atlantic.

The truth is no one really knows the exact location of the Lyubov Orlova -- not even the blog that's dedicated to mapping its position. Since the ship's global positioning system is offline, there's no way to track its location.

While the ghost ship could very well hit the coast of England or Scotland, it's unlikely that the crew of rats will reach land anytime soon. According to BBC News, U.K. coastguards have yet to spot the floating vessel.

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Once they find the ship, they should throw rat poisoned meat aboard. Kill the rats and salvage as much of the ship as possible and sell it for scrap metal.

Hey, maybe Crusader will find it and take some pictures for us!

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Hey, maybe Crusader will find it and take some pictures for us!

Yeah he totally should!

 

[identityissues8]

Nooooooooooo! Leave it floating!
It can be a bizarre 'Rat Island' civilisation can find in millenia to come.

 

[Raven]

Apparently it's sunk. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ghost-ship-lyubov-orlova-sinks-3058186#.UuN6cbRFCM8

 

[identityissues8]

Believed to be sunk is not conclusively sunk.
I'd like to live in hope it's alive.

 

[Jazzy]

The 300ft vessel, built 40 years ago in the Soviet Union, has nothing aboard but packs of disease-ridden rodents who are forced to prey on one another to survive.

After two years tied up in port, the decision was taken to tow her to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean where she would be scrapped.

But in heavy seas, the tow-line to a tug broke, prompting the Canadian government to send out another ship to drag her far out to sea and release her.

"There have been huge storms in recent months but it takes a lot to sink a vessel as big as that," said Irish coastguard chief Chris Reynolds.

"We must stay vigilant."

They don't sound so sure to me that this ship has sunk.

 

[Evil Eye]

Not like it's going to stay infested for long if there's nothing to eat but rats.

 

[Flurry]

Watch, it'll be the luck of some unlucky country who winds up getting visited by it.

 

[Raven]

^ England!