Evergreen Cadet Found Dead in Cabin

[Beef1992]

Just found this on Google news out of the blue .

Sound tragic , My Thoughts are with his family

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/275740-a-young-scots-seaman-found-dead-in-hong-kong/

[size4riggerboots]

Why did this not make more news?????? I'd have hoped our news feed bot would bring up things like this, but it's the first I've heard of it as well.

[Randomist]

news feed bot has been sleeping today

[size4riggerboots]

Yeah but that article was dated 21st Oct!!

[Randomist]

I'll give him a kick up the butt.

[The H]

The newsbot as its name implies takes its feed from shiptalk.com where this article was not featured. The bot is simply installed as a test of popularity. It only updates the top 3 stories every 12 hours, therefore if they do not change it does not post anything. This is to prevent the board from becoming clogged with news like deck-officer

[size4riggerboots]

What I find shocking is that this was not a top story, this is pretty big I'd have thought?

[Cadet2Captain]

:0 Shocked, Surprised it hasn't made big news :S

[stronglead]

I agree, though they obviously don't like telling everyone a cadet has been killed on ship I guess. Alot of people jumping to conclusions and all that, although still it should have been more important than some articles that float about. My thoughts are with the family.

[GuinnessMan]

Sad, very sad indeed.

Be interesting to know fully what happened...

[size4riggerboots]

Found this on it...

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3887432/Seaman-dead-in-his-cabin.html

and this

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ixRDm40dq26F1ek2QPPFX9SrkO3Q?docId=N0217401319282304094A

and the same article was published in most of the local Scottish papers, but nothing in the big ones,

[YoungMariner]

Anyone know what the suspected cause of death was? I remember there was a big issue a few years back when a cadet died from heat exhaustion on a ship.

[Beef1992]

According to My friend Who has known this guy , the majority of his life (isle of lewis is a small community ) His family are still over in HK and Little is still known , Sounds like it could be sudden death syndrome . What a tragic way to go He only had one phase left .

[YoungMariner]

If thats the case, it's sad but it's unavoidable and makes you realise that you must make the most of everyday. So when you arrive in a new port and the lads ask you if you want to go for a drink and wander around, just go for it! Make the most of life.

[Allan]

He died of a massive heart attack. Natural causes. The biggest shame about the whole thing is that he was genuainly the nicest person you could ever meet, you would never meet anyone that could say a bad word about him. Just under 2000 people attended his funeral. We were int he same year in high school, and were int he same college class at home before we went away to seperate colleges for our cadetships.

From what I had seen him saying on facebook- he had already served his time and was actually due to leave the ship before this but his trip was extended by six weeks.