So long and thanks for all the fish

This was posted over our way by IYE:

“Off the East Yorkshire coast, a grave incident is unfolding where the U.S.-flagged oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate loaded with jet fuel, a ship designated critical to US national security in the Department of Transportation’s Tanker Security Program (TSP), was struck while at anchor by the Portuguese-flagged containership MV Solong.

The collision has set both vessels ablaze, triggering extensive search and rescue operations. The crews have abandoned both ships. While initial reports suggest all U.S. Merchant Mariners are reportedly safe in lifeboats, one crew member from the Solong remains unaccounted for.

“It appears that Solong did not slow down or maneuver. It rammed straight into the side of Stena Immaculate,” said maritime historian Sal Mercogliano in a video analyzing the AIS ship tracks.”
https://gcaptain.com/us-merchant-marine-oil-tanker-in-flames-off-uk/

“MV Solong” – as in “so long I’ll be seeing you! ” Someone taking the *iss?

My take on it was, across the way:

I was looking at this last night before dropping off … that route, by the way, was precisely the one I was due to sail a decade ago, from Hartlepool, if I’d bought the boat, only I was heading for Goole.

It was either DEI or planned to be, not unlike all the others from the bridge pylon and the deviated route to East Palestine … someone with tech expertise, militarised, did this … one of the two explanations or both. One thing I for one am noticing is high-ups continuing to use bunnies, patsies … yes, I’m calling this the Landy motif, after Pam Landy in Bourne. Whereas, in that third part of the trilogy, she turned the tables … that was a film, wasn’t it.

Another motif everpresent is how readily it collapses, once hit, not unlike a WTC tower … the term “sitting duck” springs to mind. Also Silverstein type planning of the “event”. Some bright boy or girl knows that in this case, the tanker would be lying amidships, perpendicular to the oncoming missile MV Solong.

Naturally, near impossible to sheet home to anyone and any daring to suggest something untoward … weeeell, they’re just loons, conspiracy theorists, aren’t they.

Eventually, OoL readers, one comes to the point where, even though a dear friend of mine said, years ago at OoL … “I’m not going there …” … that’s fine for then … but for how much longer?  The new pic in the sidebar (for now) is not one any self-respecting rationalist with it all at the fingertips wishes to pursue.

The girl next door here said she’s not interested in politics, to which I replied, “That’s fine and I’ll not lay it on you but … politics is interested in you.”  We’d been discussing defences for ladies in the light of various attacks that day from our guests, plus younger British who are a whole other species today.