Enough damage from UFOs happens each year to warrant an international UFO fund.... It is impossible to prove that it was a container, and more impossible to assign blame, but a fairly small tax on container shipping could result in a substantial fund to help cover damages from presumed container collisions.  About 1500 containers are lost at sea each year.   How many remain floating just at the surface?    It is an nonassignable liability that rightfully belongs to the entire industry........  You  cannot put a value on lost human life, but lost property is another matter, and a widows and orphans fund would be appropriate.    220 miles west of Brittany.... presumably moving SSW...... a proverbial needle in a haystack

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On 8/27/19 9:09 PM, Rob Denney harryproa@gmail.com [harryproa] wrote:

 

Very sad, and unfortunately it is probably on it's way to the West Indies via the North Atlantic drift by now.  I didn't sail it, but got a lot of inspiration from it and from Phillipe's attitude to boats.  I have no idea what they hit or what broke.  I originally thought it could have been from banging into the supertanker that rescued them, but they were picked up from the liferaft, so it must have happened in the UFO collision. 

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:20 AM lucjdekeyser@telenet.be [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:

 

hit something, broke and was abandoned at sea.

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/210405-shipwreck-in-northern-atlantic-need-help-to-locate/

I think Rob sailed it some years ago.

Mighty boat on video.

Its built looks very much engineered.

Any weak structural points experts can point to ? 

The main hull departed from the ama looks quite improbable unless the ama itself broke off.

 I hope they find it and report back the damage to learn from.

Sad.