German Found Mummified On His Yacht

[OnMyWay]

Have you seen this?  Strange!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469044/Mummified-body-German-adventurer-vanished-inside-drifting-yacht-Philippines.html

[Jack Peterson]

Have you seen this?  Strange!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469044/Mummified-body-German-adventurer-vanished-inside-drifting-yacht-Philippines.html

 Not too sure I believe it  :no: The elements at sea as reported just won't in my Mind, allow what has been found in tact But............ :rolleyes:

 

Jack  :unsure:

 

Morning all  :morning1:

 

:hystery: Tuesday is not the same with an Edit  :thumbsup:

Edited March 1, 2016 by Jack Peterson

[Jollygoodfellow]

Could not see any reason to fake a mummified body. Looks to me he died on the spot trying to get help.   Probably had a heart attack or something. 

 

Anyway you can see the evidence is in a secured environment .

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2016 by Jollygoodfellow
added bit

[sonjack2847]

Just saw this on yahoo.

 

 

 

 

 

Mummy-looking dead man found in yacht off Philippines

 

Associated Press

Associated Press

1 March 2016

 

EDITORS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this Feb. 26, 2016, photo provided by Philippine Coast Guard Public Information Office in Manila, a coast guard official inspects a man's remains on a yacht near the shore off Barobo township, Surigao Del Sur province in southeastern Philippines. Philippine police say they're trying to determine the identity and cause of death of a sailor who was found dead while sitting slumped on a table by the radio of a wayward yacht found adrift in the Pacific Ocean. (Philippine Coast Guard Public Information Office in Manila via AP) MANDATORY CREDITView photos

EDITORS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this Feb. 26, 2016, photo provided by Philippine Coast Guard Public Information Office in Manila, a coast guard official inspects a man's remains on a yacht near the shore off Barobo township, Surigao Del Sur province in southeastern Philippines. Philippine police say they're trying to determine the identity and cause of death of a sailor who was found dead while sitting slumped on a table by the radio of a wayward yacht found adrift in the Pacific Ocean. (Philippine Coast Guard Public Information Office in Manila via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police said Tuesday that they were trying to determine the identity and cause of death of a man found dead while sitting slumped in a yacht that was drifting in the Pacific Ocean and which was apparently owned by a German adventurer.

 

Police Chief Inspector Dominador Plaza said the gray decomposing remains of the man resembled a mummy, adding mystery to his death. His body was discovered near the radio in the cabin of a white yacht found last week by Filipino fishermen off the southeastern province of Surigao del Sur.

 

There were no visible signs of foul play, like a gunshot or stabbing wound, Plaza said.

 

"Initially, it looks to us that he died of natural causes, maybe a heart attack," he said by phone. "And death appears to have come suddenly because he was still sitting by the table when he passed away."

 

Plaza said initial estimates show the man had been dead in the hot enclosed cabin for at least several days, but that authorities were awaiting an autopsy report due this week for a more accurate finding.

 

The 12-meter (40-foot) -long sailboat's mast was broken, maybe in a storm, police said.

 

Documents found in the yacht showed that it was apparently owned by a German adventurer identified as Manfred Fritz Bajorat, Plaza said, adding that investigators still have to determine whether he was the dead man.

 

Mayor Felixberto Urbiztondo of Surigao del Sur's coastal town of Barobo, where fishermen towed the damaged yacht and the body was brought, said a daughter of Bajorat called to say her family was planning to travel to the Philippines to help investigators confirm whether the man was her father.

 

If the man was Bajorat, Urbiztondo said the man's family plans to have him cremated before bringing him back home.

 

The German Embassy in Manila refused to comment and referred questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin.

Edited March 1, 2016 by sonjack2847

[jai_ren]

you have been dishonest with the headline. Nowhere in the Daily Mail article does it say that the guy was 'mummified'. He was only 'decomposing'.

 

I'd throw you out of the newsroom and have you sweeping the floor, for a mistake like that.

 

interesting story though. There is no need, to over-inflate it.

[jai_ren]

oh wait, now I see that the Mail has decided to go into this big debate about what 'mummification', is supposed to be. Most people would consider it only starts to happen after considerably longer, than after this guy's decomposed body was found.

[Jollygoodfellow]

you have been dishonest with the headline. Nowhere in the Daily Mail article does it say that the guy was 'mummified'. He was only 'decomposing'.

 

I'd throw you out of the newsroom and have you sweeping the floor, for a mistake like that.

 

interesting story though. There is no need, to over-inflate it.

 

 

Whippy. This story is running on a lot of online news with the word mummified so take your soft serve and dip it.

[OnMyWay]

you have been dishonest with the headline. Nowhere in the Daily Mail article does it say that the guy was 'mummified'. He was only 'decomposing'.

 

Huh?  The first headline in the link I gave is:

 

"The tragedy that haunted the mummified mariner: Body of German adventurer was found hunched over table on his yacht next to note to his dead wife and fading photos that provide clues to his past"

 

There were a lot of stories out there but the Daily Mail had the most detail and pictures.

 

Anyway, as writer and poster of the original post, instead of demotion, I promoted myself to editor in chief and now I give the orders.   :)

[jai_ren]

a mummy is a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment and wrapped in bandages.

 

it is not some German bloke that died on a yacht in the Philippines, and was found a few days later.

[OnMyWay]

a mummy is a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment and wrapped in bandages.

 

it is not some German bloke that died on a yacht in the Philippines, and was found a few days later.

 

If the picture is accurate, it was a lot more than a few days.  It seems strange that he did not decompose more in the humid conditions.  Natural mummification is usually in dry conditions.  Perhaps he he just got moldy because there was a lack of insects to eat him.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy#Types_of_mummies

Types of mummies

Mummies are typically divided into one of two distinct categories: anthropogenic or spontaneous. Anthropogenic mummies were deliberately created by the living for any number of reasons, the most common being for religious purposes. Spontaneous mummies, such as Ötzi, were created unintentionally due to natural conditions such as extremely dry heat or cold, or anaerobic conditions such as those found in bogs.^[15] While most individual mummies exclusively belong to one category or the other, there are examples of both types being connected to a single culture, such as those from the ancient Egyptian culture.^[19]

Edited March 2, 2016 by Jollygoodfellow
broke unessasay links. Post as plain text removes these as you post thanks