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A Russian ship that has been adrift for nearly a year in the North Atlantic is on a trajectory that could cause it to run aground in Ireland, Scotland or the Devon coast.
British newspaper The Independent reported that decommissioned Russian cruise ship Lyubov Orlova could be infested with diseased, cannibalistic rats that have turned to eating each other to survive.
The Soviet-era vessel was being towed from Newfoundland, Canada to the Dominican Republic
when its tow-line snapped in a storm and the craft went adrift.
Canadian maritime officials tracked the vessel, but only until they were certain the ship “no longer pose[d] a threat to the safety of [Canadian] offshore oil installations, their personnel or the marine environment.”
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