A large, rusty ship was found adrift near Rangoon, Burma, without crew or cargo. Local police reported the discovery, calling it a “ghost ship.” When authorities inspected the vessel, they found only five fishermen inside, who had entered “to take a look at the ship, in case they could benefit from the law of the sea.”
Investigators identified the ship as the Sam Ratulangi PB 1600. According to the BBC, the vessel was being towed to Bangladesh, where “hundreds of commercial ships are dismantled every year in the port of Chittagong.”
Authorities later determined that the ship broke free from its tugboat due to bad weather, causing it to drift until it reached the Burmese coast.
