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RORO Vessel Felicity Ace Sinks carrying Porsche VW last built Lamborghini Aventadors
The Felicity Ace, the cargo ship that caught fire while carrying thousands of brand new Volkswagen, Porsche, and Lamborghini vehicles, sunk Tuesday morning, according to a press statement.
FULL ARTICLE: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a3...go-ship-sinks/ The vessel sank carrying 4000+ VWs, Porsches, Bentleys, and the last built Lamborghini Aventadors. The ship, which was carrying around 4000 cars, sank after it "suffered a list to starboard," a press release from its operators said Tuesday. The Felicity Ace became submerged around 253 miles away from the Portuguese archipelago of Azores around 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
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Doesn't that ship seem to be riding high in the water considering it's carrying 4000 vehicles?
Say an average of 3,600lbs per car x 4000 = 14,400,000 lbs or 7,200 tons. Here's a conspiracy theory for you, the cars were never loaded on board, out at sea a fire was started and eventually the ship was scuttled, now it's several miles down so everything is a write off. Everyone gets a settlement and the cars are still sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be sold on the black market. Not really serious but that ship sure looks like it's riding high to me.
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I hadn't actually heard it sank, though. I knew it was abandoned.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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For that value of claim, the insurance companies might get together and drop some ROV to dive the wreckage...? According to Reuters it's 2.17 miles down. Easy dive for a ROV.
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Why leave it in an unstable situation because of a fire? I'm not serious about the fraud thing but someone has some explaining do. Hmmm, I guess it could also be listing because of the tens of thousands of gallons of water they dumped on the flames trying to put it out. Heads are going to roll one way or another.
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