Rat infested ghost ship

"[Owner] Transport Canada decided not to pursue the ship."

Seriously, how do you decide not to take care of your responsibility?

"Sending the ship off into international waters, Transport Canada said it was satisfied the Lyubov Orlova 'no longer poses a threat to the safety of [Canadian] offshore oil installations, their personnel or the marine environment.'"

Are they not concerned about causing damage to another vessel or environmental impact? How do you get away with this?

I've always respected maritime law as something simple with basic logic at it's core. Where in maritime law does it say you can just abandon ship and not take responsibility for it?

So, the line breaks in a storm.... You don't set off a beacon to track it? You don't monitor it so you can recover it?
 
if she is farther out than rats can swim...scuttle it
wonder how much fuel is left in the tanks though ??
 
Whose responsibiltiy is it?? The ship sat in St Johns, Nfld for a couple of years before it was sold offshore for scrap and broke the tow enroute. Having said that, the CDN gov'ts lack of action on these issues has been less than stellar. Google M/V Canadian Miner [having trouble with the link].
 
With all the satellite mapping and photographic capabilities available today, it shouldn't be that hard to find that thing floating around the North Atlantic, if they used its last approx. position from the lifeboat beacons. I agree, it is a menace to navigation and should be retrieved.
 
I just don't understand the irresponsibility..... It seems to me to be pure greed not to invest in retrieval when it poses a danger to other vessels. With all the mundane and ridiculous laws we have imposed on ourselves, you would think there would be a law regarding this.

My feeling is that they file insurance claims and the insurance company isn't going to invest in recovery because they don't have to.
 
If it was en route for scrap I'm guessing all the fluids were drained, although I wonder how much the junkman in the Dominican Republic is concerned with what Greenpeace thinks. Besides, any vessel that is adrift can be claimed for salvage. I'm sure the Canadian company that let it go weighed their options and decided it wasn't worth retrieval.
 
The article said it was worth in scrap in the $800,000 range. That may be enough to justify the trip. But to recover it would probably be a loss.
 
I'm originally from St. John's and had seen the rusting hulk in the harbour. Imagining the storms the ship must have seen in the North Atlantic, I can't see how she would still be afloat.

Paul
 
It sounds like the perfect place for our president to go when his term is done. (that will be all we can afford to spend when he is done.)
 
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