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The Documentary: The ghost ship

The ghost ship

15/04/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The ghost ship

A tanker drifts, unmanned, onto an Indian beach - like a ghost. What really happened?

In the Persian gulf, a powerful storm appears to sink an oil tanker, prompting a dramatic Royal Navy rescue. But six weeks later, the same tanker causes a scandal when it drifts onto a luxury Bollywood beach in India - like a ghost. Environment journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor delve into the unsolved mystery, investigating allegations of murky goings-on.

(Photo: MT Pavit, which ran aground off Juhu beach, Mumbai, seen tilted towards its right. Credit: Vijayanand Gupta/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

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