Sailors find ‘ghost ship’ drifting hundreds of miles from Bermuda

A sailor has shared new footage of the second he stumbled upon an eerie ‘ghost ship’ 800 miles exterior of Bermuda with no crew or passengers on board.

Matt Rutherford and his colleague from Ocean Research Project discovered the deserted boat and instantly frightened one thing horrible could have occurred to the crew on board.

Incredible video of Mr Rutherford exploring the boat because it drifted by means of the Atlantic Ocean solely emerged 5 days in the past, though the invention was made in 2013.

In the video, the yachties observed the sail was not up on the boat and it seemed to be ‘behaving surprisingly’ within the distance. Upon nearer inspection, the duo realised ‘there was no signal of anybody’ and the motor was not working.

In deciding to discover the boat Mr Rutherford mentioned: ‘This is one awfully deserted sailboat. Wolfhound from the Irish yacht membership.

‘I do not know what’s inside, I’m going to go and search round and I hope I do not find any useless our bodies or something.’

On board, the boat appeared to have been deserted in a rush, with garments and personal objects strewn all around the cabin.

‘No useless our bodies, thank God,’ he mentioned. 

‘This is totally loopy by the way in which. 800 miles from Bermuda, 1,500 miles from the US, standing on a really good Swan 48, within the center of the ocean.’ 

Mr Rutherford mentioned in an earlier podcast detailing the 2013 exploration he ‘half anticipated somebody to pop their head up and say good day’, however felt he wanted to discover it in case somebody was injured on board. 

‘Parts of the ceiling had fallen down in some locations, some drawers had popped open, you could possibly hear the water sloshing round. It was simply the spookiest factor. It regarded loopy in there, like folks had deserted it within the center of one thing.’ 

Initially, the pair connected the boat to their very own and hoped to tow it together with them.

After travelling about 50 miles, they realised it would not be doable to go any additional and needed to minimize the Wolfhound free.

The video was shared to YouTube simply 5 days in the past, and has caught the eye of on-line sleuths who imagine the boat was skippered by Alan McGettigan, of the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

Mr McGettigan and his crew made headlines in 2013 after they have been rescued 400 miles off the coast of Delaware on a voyage to Bermuda and Antigua.

At the time, it was reported the yacht suffered ‘knock-downs’ and was broken, with mechanical failures.

The crew put out a misery name and have been rescued by a Greek freighter.

Mr Rutherford typically shares his daring adventures on-line, and was the primary man to solo sail continuous round North and South America.

He’s thought-about by many as a ‘legend’ throughout the crusing neighborhood.