Experts believe a derelict cruise ship that’s been missing for a year may be en route to the U.K. The problem? It may also be filled with disease-ridden cannibal rats.
Built in Yugoslavia in 1976, the Lyubov Orlova was a cruise liner that had for many years transported passengers to destinations around the world. Unfortunately, in 2010, the ship was impounded in Newfoundland, Canada and deserted by her crew.
Two years later, while being towed to the Dominican Republic to be scrapped, a heavy storm caused the tow-line to break, sending the Lyubov Orlova out to aimlessly wander the North Atlantic Ocean.
Over the following months, the Lyubov Orlova was spotted at various locations in the North Atlantic. In one instance last year, satellites found an object near Scotland that may have been the ship, but subsequent searches in the area found nothing.
Now, a year later, new concerns are being raised that the ship is heading for the U.K.
It’s completely empty, save for the potentially hundreds of diseased rats aboard the ship that have most likely been forced to eat one another to survive. Well, maybe.
The ship’s current position is unknown, but due to recent high winds, experts fear the ghost ship may be on a crash course for the British coastline. If they’re right, the Lyubov Orlova is likely to wind up on the west coast of Ireland, Scotland, or southern England.
What happens if/when it gets there? I don’t know, but…diseased rats. Can’t be good.
Spooky unrelated derelict ship image courtesy Gerry Thomason
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