The Kaz II: The Ghost Yacht Found with the Engine Running and Nobody Aboard

A representative image: a white sailing catamaran anchored in calm blue water off a rocky coast — the Kaz II was a 9.8-metre catamaran of similar type, and no freely licensed photograph of the vessel itself is available

About 5 min readOn 20 April 2007 rescuers boarded a 9.8-metre catamaran drifting off Queensland. The engine was running, the table was set, a video camera held footage of the crew alive five days earlier — and the three men were gone. A coroner later reconstructed what probably happened, but no bodies were ever found.