High Aim 6

The High Aim 6: The Fishing Boat Found Empty in 2003

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A representative image: a modern fishing trawler at sea at sunset — the High Aim 6 was a Taiwanese longline fishing vessel of similar working type, and no freely licensed photograph of the vessel itself is available

About 5 min readOn 8 January 2003 a Taiwanese longline fishing boat was found drifting off Western Australia with a full hold, fuel, provisions, and the crew’s belongings — but no crew of ten. A search of 7,300 nautical miles found nothing, and the only man ever traced claimed the captain and engineer had been murdered.