'Ghost yacht' found off Australia

[scandi]

Here is a link to what I was discussing about the logging of their call from the radio at 6:45pm. It was made about an hour after darkness, so is quite strange I think:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21616238-662,00.html


See you on a break this afternoon! Scandi

 

[kazzbar]

Here is a link to what I was discussing about the logging of their call from the radio at 6:45pm. It was made about an hour after darkness, so is quite strange I think:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21616238-662,00.html


See you on a break this afternoon! Scandi

Hello Scandi.. unfortortunately I missed Greta but thanks for the link. I had not heard this... it does sound very suspicious..I would love to see this resolved as it is very odd.

 

[lymom3]

I wonder if the calls are recorded by any chance to see if indeed it was one of them. Could have been someone else that took over the boat by that point perhaps trying to make things appear to be normal by checking in as they should.

 

[dingo]

This story keeps getting wierder and weider....me still thinks foul play was involved......I keep thinking of the fenders being out and the idling motor....imo someone pulled up beside that boat.

 

[newkid]

I know the swimming thing has been mostly discounted, but what if they decided to cool off, or wash off or whatever and planned to stay close to the boat. I've read a lot lately about swimmers staying too close to where the motor vents and quickly losing consciousness from carbon monoxide poisoning, then drowning.

Though I haven't come up with a reason for the fenders to be out and I can't think of a man who would fold his clothes if he was just going for a quick dip.

 

[kazzbar]

This story keeps getting wierder and weider....me still thinks foul play was involved......I keep thinking of the fenders being out and the idling motor....imo someone pulled up beside that boat.

Someone else suggested drugs. Could thses guys have been mistaken for someone else and murdered because of drug dealing.Perhaps it was mistaken identity and they were just in the wrong place at the time and saw something they should not have...

 

[dingo]

I know the swimming thing has been mostly discounted, but what if they decided to cool off, or wash off or whatever and planned to stay close to the boat. I've read a lot lately about swimmers staying too close to where the motor vents and quickly losing consciousness from carbon monoxide poisoning, then drowning.

Though I haven't come up with a reason for the fenders to be out and I can't think of a man who would fold his clothes if he was just going for a quick dip.

Hi New kid...anything is possible.

 

[dingo]

Someone else suggested drugs. Could thses guys have been mistaken for someone else and murdered because of drug dealing.Perhaps it was mistaken identity and they were just in the wrong place at the time and saw something they should not have...

Maybe we,ll never know......I hate a story without an ending.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Good Morning! Ah Dingo, Crack me up and send me runnin'!

Shazza, Greta hosts her own show on FOX, and what she deals with mainly are ongoing crimes, the missing and newsworthy hot topics.

Kazzbar, did you see the show? What did you think of after hearing that spot on the ghost ship? I guess it means they left the boat later than LE thinks they did or else someone else was on board after they left. I think I believe the latter since the fenders were left hanging outside the hull.

It will put a jigger in their investigation, as it reallly is something pertinent to figuring out what happened IMHO.

Buzz baby, what do you think about this? Scandi

Scandi, I wish someone would plot the GPS historical data, so we could all judge for ourselves just when the KAZ II began drifting. We know where they left from and where they were headed, so it shouldn't be too difficult to determine, based on the winds, and current, just when the boat started drifting. I don't think the last message at 6:45PM means anything other than that the three men weren't washed overboard during the peak winds that Sunday. I also wish the family had a website to act as a repository for all known, and suggested, information. I'm assuming they have taken the jib sail down for very close inspection; I'm wondering how old the sail cloth was and whether it showed weakness. I wonder if there is historical meteorlogical data available for that area for temps, wind direction, and wind speed.

 

[wildTrose]

You know there are still modern day pirates!! And if noone has brought this up already they shoot one warning shot to get them to stop then they take over the boat, usually killing all aboard. shoot them shove them overboard and noone the wiser or throw them overboard and they drown. These guys had to have had some money on them for the trip.

 

[dingo]

This was discussed earlier and discarded.....Pirates proberly would have taken the boat aswell as all the expensive gear onboard......

 

[kazzbar]

Scandi, I wish someone would plot the GPS historical data, so we could all judge for ourselves just when the KAZ II began drifting. We know where they left from and where they were headed, so it shouldn't be too difficult to determine, based on the winds, and current, just when the boat started drifting. I don't think the last message at 6:45PM means anything other than that the three men weren't washed overboard during the peak winds that Sunday. I also wish the family had a website to act as a repository for all known, and suggested, information. I'm assuming they have taken the jib sail down for very close inspection; I'm wondering how old the sail cloth was and whether it showed weakness. I wonder if there is historical meteorlogical data available for that area for temps, wind direction, and wind speed.

The damage to to sail is consistant with it flogging (due to not being correctly set (confirmed by police).I to would like to see the GPS plots

Frank(Kazzbars Husband)

 

[dingo]

Hello Frank ......thankyou for your response.

 

[kazzbar]

Hello Frank ......thankyou for your response.

as if he is not on enough forums now he is posting on mine...Do not be kind to him Dingo, he is an alien.

 

[dingo]

Ill try not to encourage him then Kazz:crazy:

 

[Buzz Mills]

The damage to to sail is consistant with it flogging (due to not being correctly set (confirmed by police).I to would like to see the GPS plots

Frank(Kazzbars Husband)

Thanks for that bit of info Frank. I would think that the GPS data would be one of the first things they looked at, when they discovered the men missing, especially since they really don't appear to have anything else to go on, other than where the boat started out from, and where it ended up.

 

[scandi]

Someone else suggested drugs. Could thses guys have been mistaken for someone else and murdered because of drug dealing.Perhaps it was mistaken identity and they were just in the wrong place at the time and saw something they should not have...

I don't know Kazzbar, We have 3 OLD MEN for victims!

 

[narlacat]

I don't know Kazzbar, We have 3 OLD MEN for victims!

How do you mean Scandi?

 

[Buzz Mills]

I don't know Kazzbar, We have 3 OLD MEN for victims!

Scandi, I resent that remark. I would think, by now (at your age--LOL), you would be championing that age is a state of mind.

 

[narlacat]

Scandi, I resent that remark. I would think, by now (at your age--LOL), you would be championing that age is a state of mind.

lol I don't know what Scandi means by that-