Stowaways take huge risks
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
I can’t see them travelling on the rudder, either. It’s hard enough to hang on to some fairground rides with proper hand holds. However, I won’t say never. Equally, I can’t see them simply clambering up at a latter stage when there’s slow manoeuvring. (Again, I won’t say never, though)
There’s surely more to the story, or possibly just a lot less.
It does beg the question though- how many folk over time have misguidedly thought such things possible, or were duped into accepting some elaborate plan with confident assurances, only to be chewed up into fish food? Similar has happened in aviation, and there are curious techniques employed in different places to guard against the escape, or utter mangling of determined people.
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
How did they know it was going to the Canaries is my question? Just a hope since it was maybe Spanish flagged and had a Spanish name?
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
I know nothing about ships but it has apparently happened before and there is, apparently, some sort of room above the rudder:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/stowaways ... y-islands/
https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/stowaways ... y-islands/
Re: Stowaways take huge risks
Maybe it’s empty when doing that route. It’s a chemical ship.
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I don't think ships can sail on the open seas without ballast.
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
Isn't three Africans enough?John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 10:05 amI don't think ships can sail on the open seas without ballast.
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Re: Stowaways take huge risks
I saw a video on youtube a few weeks ago, a guy on a jetski decided to get closeup to a big ship while it was underway and had to fight to get out of the wash and not get sucked into or under it, and maybe chopped up by the propeller. The back of one of those huge ships is no place I'd want to be and sitting on the rudder seems downright suicidal.
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