yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

A Mysterious Sinking | Lawless Oceans


3m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[music playing]

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): I've asked my friend Lugs to help me take a look at the Ping Shin 101's last journey.

KARSTEN: Let's just go through this together because there are a couple of things I need some verification on. Ready?

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): As a former New Zealand Navy engineer, Lugs knows what it takes to sink a ship. So here's what I think it did. In July 2014, it went past Diego Garcia and then was intending to sail home all the way back to Taiwan. And in this part right here, in the middle of the Indian Ocean—furthest away from Ache, pretty far from Colombo, relatively far from Diego Garcia—on the 7th of July, 2014, it sank here, right? Yeah.

[music playing]

This is the Australian Maritime Safety Agency, and they had a report out that the Ping Shin 101 suffered mechanical failure and that the crew was abandoning the vessel into life rafts. It depended on what the mechanical failure was.

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): Ships that lose power in heavy seas can capsize as they drift broadside to the current. Yet there's no talk of that in the report.

KARSTEN: You've had cases where ships have broken down with mechanical failure, and they just get towed into port.

LUGS: Yup.

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): But there's a second report from the rescue ship.

KARSTEN: They said that this ship experienced flooding in the engine room. Would one of these things sink just because the engine room floods? Don't you think that's a bit weird?

LUGS: It is. It is. Because they always use the engine room as a safe room for pirate attacks because you can lock it and seal it.

KARSTEN: You can lock it down, yeah. So it would be the same, right? It should be watertight. And why would that rupture? It would have to run aground or someone's done it on purpose.

LUGS: You mean someone scuttling the ship?

KARSTEN: Yeah.

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): I'm sure the rescuers only reported what the crew told them, but why the inconsistency?

[music playing]

KARSTEN: The Taiwanese then say in their official report that the Ping Shin 101 grounded and started taking on water and sank. And I mean, this is where it sank right here, and in this immediate area, the nearest landmass—the nearest place where there is even a reef for this thing to ground on—was in Diego Garcia. And that's 470 nautical miles.

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): Diego Garcia is a British territory that's home to a major US military base. It seems unlikely that the Ping Shin would come close enough to shore to run aground.

KARSTEN: And even if the Ping Shin 101 grounded, is it feasible that they could have even sailed 470 nautical miles while taking on water?

LUGS: Yeah, there’s no way.

KARSTEN (VOICEOVER): The loss of the 101 is important. It was the key physical link to the killings. Normally, a homicide scene would have forensics—fingerprints, DNA. In this case, we only have video. And even the ship it was recorded on has gone.

More Articles

View All
16 Shonen Anime Recommendations from a Japanese Otaku Girl🇯🇵
Hi guys, it’s me, Judy. Today I’m back with another video which was highly, highly, highly, highly, highly requested from you guys, which is my favorite animes and my recommendations. Basically, [Music]. So before even talking about my recommendations, j…
Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time, but you say that you will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get at scale. That’s right. So essentially, I could… We talked about before, money is IOU’s from society sa…
10 Low Cost Businesses To Start In A Developing Country
The best way to start making money in a developing country is to start a business for two reasons. One, there isn’t anything much to do anyway; and two, starting a business in that environment is way easier than anywhere else. That’s because all you have …
Finding definite integrals using area formulas | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
[Instructor] We’re told to find the following integrals, and we’re given the graph of f right over here. So this first one is the definite integral from negative six to negative two of f of x dx. Pause this video and see if you can figure this one out …
Why War Zones Need Science | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
So you can see a skull very clearly up there, and actually, if you look closely, you can see there’s a number of other bones: long bones, bones of the foot. So, a whole pile of bones here. This is Ella Al-Shamahi; she’s standing on a rocky hillside next t…
The Nostalgia Effect
You look out the window into the empty streets. No sounds of kids running around, no noise of busy streets littered with both cars and pedestrians. The city is silent, the pigeons don’t even group up anymore because there’s no one to feed them. Your alarm…