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I was on the cruise ship, I spoke with "Nate"(dreadlocks), I carefully watched the video and have tried to keep up on the goings on here...I think there is more to this than meets the eye, I must credit the captain "Gene" with getting his crew safely onto our vessel but...we picked them up in the Gulf stream(current of 1kt or so) and heard them claim they were out in this area for 11 days...with no propulsion to move them in or out of the current i assume they would have moved 25 NM per day (300 miles??? perhaps I am wrong), wouldn't they have been a few hundred miles south of the recovery spot when "things went bad"...but they never discussed this, the owner lied about many things, such as living with the guys on the boat for a week or so before the voyage, "Nate" said he was a last day replacement of a "homeless guy" that got arrested...he also added that the silent guy was also a homeless guy that the owner found in Baltimore(he was confined to quarters by the crew of the Explorer of the Seas for drunken behavior), quality crew...the owner discussed how the wrecking ball had pulled the VHF antenna off the boat, but nate added to me that the VHF never was functional (only the handheld) further I think he told me the iron genny was DOA, when they left Baltimore, nate said the boat was taking on a few inches every few hours, alot less than what has been discussed here...When I spoke with Nate I kept getting interrupted by cruisers who thought he was a celebrity and wanted to have pix taken with him, so i was never able to fully explore things...but thats another story...bottom line I just have a false feeling about the entire thing, I dont really know what they were doing, or where they were going, why they were there...
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