MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The wreckage washed up on a beach in the US state of California is believed to be the remains of the missing Russian cruise vessel Lyubov Orlova, US scientists say as cited by the Daily Mirror.
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The Lyubov Orlova, built in 1976 in the former Yugoslavia, went missing during its transfer from a Canadian port in Newfoundland to the Dominican Republic for scrap in 2013. The vessel was believed to have sunk, but there have been reports that it might still be drifting in the Atlantic Ocean.
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A Sunday episode of the Science Channel's What on Earth program showed that the wreckage was the same size as the missing Russian ship. Nevertheless, the scientists doubted that it could be possible for wreckage to drift from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Other experts said that the found remains of the ship are concrete, while the Soviet ship was built mainly of metal.
The scientists suggest that it could be another vessel — the SS Monte Carlo, a former floating casino run by the Italian-American mafia.
