After the ghost ship remained floating for thousands of miles in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean without humans, it finally docked due to the impact of Hurricane Dennis on the coast of Ireland yesterday.
The British newspaper "Daily Mail" said that the ship "Alta", a cargo ship carrying the flag of Tanzania, drifted after the American Coast Guard rescued their 10-man crew 1,300 miles southeast of Bermuda Island, in the North Atlantic, in October 2018.
It is believed that this ship, which was last seen off the coast of Africa, made its way north near Spain and the west coast of Britain before it was docked in the "Paleokotn" area near the Irish city of Cork last Sunday.
"Indeed, such a situation occurs 1 in a million," John Tattan, director of the Royal Maritime Rescue Institute, told the Irish Examiner. I have never seen or heard of an abandoned ship making this trip. "
Matin said that great efforts had been made to contact the ship's owner, but the US Coast Guard found that rescuing the ship was futile when they first found it. A spokesman for the Irish coast guard in Waterford said that the ship was not polluting the environment, but expressed fear that a high tide could drift the ship into the sea, which poses a threat to ships passing from the area.
The British navy had seen this ship while it was in the mid-Atlantic last September. A British naval spokesman said they had launched a tweet in order to provide assistance but no one had answered them, adding that "while the investigation is still ongoing on this strange case, we cannot provide more information."
In October 2018, the US Coast Guard landed supplies on board the ship, which had been without fuel for 20 days, and was parked 1380 miles southeast of Bermuda.
This 44-year-old ship broke down while on a trip between Greece and Haiti, according to the coast guard. A week after the supplies were disembarked, the US Coast Guard rescued the ship’s crew before Hurricane Leslie arrived.
US officials said they had tried to identify the ship's owner to agree on the diameter of the ship to shore.
But naval sources said that it is possible that this ship was pirated at some point in its working history, and perhaps more than once, which makes it difficult to know who is its owner.