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The ghost ship

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The Unknown Story of the Pavit Sinking

The owners of the Pavit arrive in India. They turn up at a few meetings and then they're gone leaving the Pavit behind. After the second or third meeting they just disappeared. We've been mulling over this for a while and we've gone through a lot of theories. One is that all of this was an attempted insurance fraud because someone have been trying to scuttle the ship so they could claim big money on the insurance. Of course there's the issue of the AIS satellite data. Why was it not transmitting for weeks before the crews rescue? Did the system fail or was it deliberately turned off? Could they have been doing something they didn't want the world to

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