Saw this grave as we wandered through St Mary’s churchyard in Ross-on-Wye today. An interesting mystery that I had never heard of before.
@adoran2 I’m obsessed with maritime disasters. This is an interesting story I hadn’t heard of. I only recently read about the Mary Celeste, which the linked article references.
@jean Oh interesting! The Mary Celeste is a metaphor here for situations where few people are about.
@jean The next maritime disaster will be cyber related
25,000 miles of coastal and inland waterways, serving 361 ports, 124 shipyards, over
3,500 maritime facilities,
20,000 bridges, 50,000 Federal aids to navigation, and
95,000 miles of shoreline that interconnect with critical highways, railways, airports, and
pipelines,
and undersea cables carrying 99% of U.S. communications abroad.
Alll of it exposed