AN ABANDONED ‘ghost ship’ drifted in the Atlantic for a year and washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, in Storm Dennis

ABANDONED ‘ghost ship’ drifted in the Atlantic for a year and washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, in Storm Dennis Earlier this week, an abandoned “ghost” cargo ship was discovered washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, following strong winds from Storm Dennis.
Previously, the US Coast Guard rescued the crew members in September 2018.
The head of Ballycotton’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) told the Irish Examiner newspaper he had “never, ever seen anything abandoned like that before.”
In September 2018 the ship encountered problems when sailing from Greece to Haiti.
A power outage led to the Alta drifting at sea for 20 days around 1,300 miles (2,100km) south-east of Bermuda, according to the US Coast Guard, which became aware of its struggles.
With just two days of food left on board for Alta’s crew, the coast guard air-dropped food and other supplies.
As a hurricane approached, the coast guard decided to rescue the damaged ship’s 10 crew members and take them to Puerto Rico.
Since then the ship has been abandoned. It was last spotted in September 2019 by a British Royal Navy ship in the mid-Atlantic.
Cork County Council, the Irish Coastguard and the Receiver of Wrecks will decide what will happen to the ship,
According to the Irish Times, a person claiming to represent the owner of the ship has come forward, with investigations ongoing bbc.
Image copyrightCATHAL NOONAN / AFPAerial footage by the Irish Coast Guard showed the 80-metre (260 feet) cargo ship MV Alta stuck on the rocks near the village of Ballycotton. bbc

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