A 3-Hour Tour?

[adorshki]

I've heard of booking a passage in steerage but this might be pushing the envelope.
"I thought that I was going to Europe and then all of a sudden I found myself, I am in Brazil," Roman Ebimene Friday, one of the stowaways, told Reuters after being rescued by Brazilian federal police in the port of Vitoria, near Rio de Janeiro.

"So when the federal police came, I don’t even know where I was.... So the federal police came and they asked ‘Do you know where you are?’ I said no. I was the person that was sitting on the block of the vessel ... and they said, ‘This is Brazil,'" Friday said in an interview. "That was the first thing they said, ‘This is Brazil.’ I said, ‘Wow, this is Brazil.’ I made it to Brazil. I am happy."

Full story here:
https://www.ktvu.com/news/nigerian-...ntic-on-ships-rudder-drank-ocean-water-report

 

[FNG]

Bet those were some long nights.

 

[adorshki]

Bet those were some long nights.

"Rock-a-bye, baby........"

 

[GAD]

From what I recall this is not a rare occurrence.

From 2022: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/africa/spanish-coastguard-rescues-stowaways-intl/index.html

Article from 2020: https://www.gard.no/web/updates/con...of-stowaways-hiding-in-a-vessels-rudder-trunk

 

[beecee]

Good thing it wasn't loaded.

Which begs the question....Why would you send an empty ship across the ocean

 

[Rocky]

Which begs the question....Why would you send an empty ship across the ocean

To use an obvious example, all of those container ships bringing stuff from China to the US. If China doesn't import the exact same amount of stuff from the US, you're gonna have some empty ships (or ships with empty containers) going back.