Monday, September 14, 2009

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination  -  and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year
Read more: Daily Mail Ghost Fleet

3 comments:

  1. Great article, thanks. SP

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  2. 12% of fuel guzzling, emission emitting tankers grounded?

    Hmmmm... doesn't sound like such a bad thing to me.

    I do feel for the sailor's families, though. Hopefully they can turn their talents to other trades.

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  3. I think History looks like the evening news, when you're living through it.

    When the evening news starts to look like History, then perhaps we have a problem.

    ~dhl

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