Ghost Ship Loaded with Ammo Ruins Surf Event
August 6, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
EERIE video footage of three missing sailors from the ghost ship Kaz II shows them fishing and joking before they vanish without a trace under “threatening” skies.
It also emerged yesterday that the three men went to sea loaded with three cartons of beer, a .44-calibre rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition.
Skipper Derek “Des” Batten, 56, his best mate Peter Tunstead, 69, and his brother Jim Tunstead, 63, all of Perth, disappeared on a “trip of a lifetime” near Bowen in north Queensland in April last year.
State Coroner Michael Barnes, heading an inquest into their disappearance, yesterday watched the video as the court heard of “bullet winds”, capable of knocking the vessel drastically off keel in a sudden gust. Read more
