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re: Ship Reappears 90 Years After Going Missing
Posted on 4/27/16 at 12:53 pm to retired trucker
Posted on 4/27/16 at 12:53 pm to retired trucker
Did it come back... changed... alive?
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Posted on 4/27/16 at 1:43 pm to Ace Midnight
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Maybe on the bottom of the ocean. Rain, storms, rust - all ships leak new. All ships take on water during storms. There has to be constant maintenance to keep a ship from sinking. Could this ship have sailed, blindly, without a crew, for 1 year? 2 years? Sure. 10 years? Maybe (probably not). 90 years? Not a chance.
You whiffed on my point. Obviously an upright, water tight ship 90 years later is laughable.
But debris from a shipwreck could still be floating around.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 1:47 pm to TheCaterpillar
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But debris from a shipwreck could still be floating around.
Fair enough, but I think even less likely - without the hull, it get's waterlogged and sinks. Something naturally buoyant, maybe. An empty lifeboat lasted a long time, IIRC.
And for the record, the SS Baychimo was abandoned (ice pack, presumed it wouldn't make it) in 1931, and was seen intermittently for 38 years.
This post was edited on 4/27/16 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 4/27/16 at 1:52 pm to Ace Midnight
Also, large chunks of ship debris can be washed off of desert islands/reef tops during storms. Saw some badass above water level ship wrecks in Bermuda this week.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 1:58 pm to retired trucker
other stories on that site include
seems legit
seems legit
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