100 tons of explosives headed to Afghanistan "missing"

[rainbow4321]

The ship's crew insisting it fell off the ship when they hit rough sea.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=204208&cat=Asia

Security agencies went into a tizzy Wednesday as a merchant ship was detained here after it reported loss of nearly 100 tonnes of explosives meant for construction projects undertaken by India's Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in Afghanistan.

Officials said the ship, M.V. Euginia, after sailing from Mumbai Dec 22 for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas where the consignment was to be offloaded and taken to the project site of Jaranz in Afghanistan, had gone missing just 10 to 15 nautical miles off here.

The explosives were meant for blasting rocks and mountainsides for the highway being built by the BRO to link Delaram and Kanadhar. The captain claimed the explosives being carried in six containers had sunk in the sea in rough weather, officials said.

Sources at the Unimarine Ltd, which owns the ship, said the vessel had encountered a very choppy sea about six hours after it had sailed, and the ship's master reported that one of the containers in the deck had been loosened and it might fall in the sea. They said the master again sent a message to the owner of the ship Dec 23, saying one container had been lost.

[napi21]

1. Hmmm. Things like this DO happen at sea.

I wonder if the explosives are destroyed when they get wet?

I wonder how deep the ocean is at that point? If it's not too deep, they could retreive the container.

[MN ChimpH8R]

2. Well isn't that special

They're probably somewhere near the missing $8 billion that Halliburton "lost."