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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the his-future-is-sunk dept.

Accident? Or not?

When the UC3 Nautilus sailed from the Port of Copenhagen on the evening of Aug. 10, the homemade submarine bore just two people: its famed Danish inventor and the Swedish journalist reporting on his invention.

Less than a day later, only one of them was still alive.

Peter Madsen's submarine sank midday Aug. 11; he was rescued by a private boat, but journalist Kim Wall was nowhere to be found. It was Wall's boyfriend who reported her missing, and authorities wasted no time in arresting the 46-year-old Madsen after he came ashore, charging him that same day with manslaughter and arranging his first court appearance for the following day, a Saturday.

Initially he told authorities he had dropped off his 30-year-old companion back in Copenhagen. Now, according to a statement released Monday by Copenhagen police at the behest of the defense and the prosecutor's office, Madsen has recanted that story.

"The defendant has explained to the police and the Court, that there was an accident on board which caused Kim Wall's death," police say in the statement, "and that he consequently buried her at sea at a non-defined location in the Bay of Køge."

[...] Compounding the speculation is Madsen's outsize reputation. Something of a "wannabe Elon Musk or Richard Branson on a much smaller scale," according to Overgaard, the man often known as "Rocket Madsen" has built three submarines with the aid of crowdfunding and aspires to send a homemade rocket to space.

More about Peter Madsen. Related Kickstarter.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 23 2017, @02:16PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 23 2017, @02:16PM (#558011) Journal

    "Buried at sea" usually takes place after a memorial service. The memorial service generally takes place after doctors and clergy have examined the body, next of kin notified - and probably some other details that I'm forgetting. I have actually buried some service members at sea. I think those guys were all dead for about a month, before we actually slid their carcasses off of the sheet of plywood. Visit the coroner, get manicure, haircut, etc from the undertaker, visit the hometown church, visit the base chapel, then chill for awhile in some deep freeze, until a ship is available to carry him back to sea for the last time.

    It's been a long, long, LONG time since people were "buried at sea" within hours of assuming ambient temperature.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:12PM (#558097)

    > It's been a long, long, LONG time since people were "buried at sea" within hours of assuming ambient temperature.

    True in general, though the US navy has been known to make an exception in case you are found 1200 km from the sea with a few 5.56 wounds.

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:18PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:18PM (#558552) Homepage Journal

      A lot of people disagree with what happened after the fact and the way he was treated so solemnly. I mean, they treated him so solemnly after the fact. Cleanse the body, wash the body. I mean, give me a break. But anybody sitting in that office would've done the same. I keep hearing about, oh, bin Laden. The military did an incredible job. And they called him and they said "we have him." And Obama said, "go get him." What's he going to say, don't get him? And he gets all this credit? It's a lot of crap. 🇺🇸