I think these folks have been raptured.

[RebelOne]

Nick Pisa In Rome
A £300,000 schooner has been found floating empty in the Mediterranean - echoing the fate of the Marie Celeste over 130 years ago.

The 66ft twin-masted vessel had no name and no other identification markings.

On board there was a half-eaten meal, maps of the Med, piles of clothes and a punctured dinghy.

more........ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Ouch.

I wonder how he punctured his dinghy.

:hide:

Weird story though.

[SteppingRazor]

2. So, who gets the schooner?

Given salvage laws in international waters, it seems to me that whoever stumbled across the boat gets to keep it. Is that right?

[RebelOne]

6. No, no, it's mine. I found the story first.

[porphyrian]

3. Pirates aren't a thing of the past, you know.

And they don't all have eye patches and cutlasses.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. piracy is alive and well

and this is a perfect example of what can happen.

sP

a couple of years old ... but still
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/pirates/index.html

[reichstag911]

5. Raptured, for sure: