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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
The week began promisingly with the discovery of a mystery “ghost ship” drifting in the Gulf of Thailand with no crew, cargo or documents aboard — not even any defiant rodents. First spotted by Chevron oil-rig workers, the dilapidated Fin Shui Yuan 2, appeared to be a freighter of Chinese origin. Unfortunately, the vessel sunk in rough seas off the Nakhon Sri Thammarat coast while being towed towards land by the Thai Navy. For a fleeting moment it looked like Thailand might have its own version of the Mary Celeste which was found abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores back in 1872. Ala…
