A Panama-registered oil tanker that disappeared from radar three weeks ago en route to Senegal has now reportedly washed up in Liberia without its crew, sparking fears of a pirate attack gone very wrong. The last location of Tamaya 1 , which is registered in Panama, was recorded on April 22, heading to the port of Dakar, Senegal, from the south. All contact with the crew was then lost. In 2014 alone, there were some 20 recorded pirate attacks; however, authorities remain at a loss so far over how this tanker washed up off course without its crew, and an alternative theory is that the crew simply abandoned ship mid-journey. “Our best bet is that the vessel’s owner might have gone broke and had no money to pay crew members; and therefore, the crew abandoned the ship”, a source with the Liberian National Port Authority said, as cited by […]