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Bulk Carrier DARYA KAVRI is currently located in the Great Australian Bight .

 

What kind of ship is this?

 

DARYA KAVRI (IMO: 9791937) is a Bulk Carrier and is sailing under the flag of Marshall Is. Her length overall (LOA) is 179.97 meters and her width is 29.8 meters.

 

General

 

Name          DARYA KAVRI

Flag            Marshall Is

IMO            9791937

MMSI         538009782

Call sign    V7A5155

AIS transponder class      Class A

General vessel type          Cargo

Detailed vessel type          Bulk Carrier

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                                                                                                       Killing an albatross spelled danger

 

If you're a sailor, you'd best think twice before killing an albatross. After all, you might actually be killing a person, or at the very least endangering the entire crew. Diana Wells' "100 Birds and How They Got Their Names" explains that the albatross' graceful flight led sailors of the past to believe that they were "incarnations of wandering souls," and Chieftain Training further adds that they were the souls of sailors long since dead. Seeing one was actually a sign of good luck, as the birds were thought to act as the guardian angels of the sea, keeping a ship and her crew safe. So, naturally, killing one would invite misfortune.
 

That last belief can be directly traced back to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous 1834 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In it, the titular mariner shoots an albatross, only for the crew to then be subjected to horrific luck: A complete lack of wind effectively stranded the ship at sea as the crew ran out of drinking water, after which they were attacked, nearly the entire crew dying in the process.

That said, Coleridge's poem might not be the source of this superstition. Wells posits that, if nothing else, Coleridge possibly based his poem on a 1719 incident where a sailor killed an albatross and his ship subsequently experienced bad luck. After that, the sailor was hanged for privateering — perhaps inspiration for the dead albatross being hung around the ancient mariner's neck?

 

                                                       

                                                                 
 

 

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