The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72898 Message #1261277
Posted By: Amos
31-Aug-04 - 11:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wreckers (Sarah Davis)
Subject: RE: Looking for a song - fake light to lure ships
I encountered a boat of wreckers on the coast of Sicily, hiding in a narrow passage with a false set of spars with lights rigged out on them, designed to look like a distressed boat and lure passing yachts into a shoal. When they saw we had foiund them they folded up shop and ran off into the night.
Scary to think that was in the the late-20th century...