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Floating Garbage Can: How 39 Men Vanished from Marine Sulphur Queen
Floating Garbage Can: How 39 Men Vanished from Marine Sulphur Queen
He called the ship a floating garbage can and boarded anyway - a converted World War II tanker carrying 15,260 tons of molten sulphur that vanished with 39 men, no lifeboats and no large wreckage found. What decisions, inspections, and structural changes turned a workhorse into a death trap that disappeared in a winter storm two hundred miles west of the Florida Keys?
In this episode, we tell what the record shows about the ship's construction, conversion, maintenance, and final voyage, and we follow the trail of evidence…
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