Oh dear Steve, at this point you achieve true hypocrisy. I refer to your earlier putdown that you can't both be watching a ship sinking over the horizon and simultaneously aboard the ship. Using the exact same logic, you cannot be watching a sunset from one place whilst simultaneously remaining in an area where the sun is shining from above.
But the Sun moves with very precise regularity, and I have personally observed it in various different timezones and noticed how its regularity is offset by some interval. The same cannot be said for boats.
Viking and makingsense, please do not flame me for my beliefs. I have calmly requested evidence for your side of the argument, and all you are doing is accusing me of being insincere. You tell me my argument is based around other people not being able to prove a negative, when you can't come up with a shred of evidence for your case. As I have said numerous times, there is plenty of evidence that the boats actually did sink, because people watched them sink. Where's your evidence to the contrary?
I appreciate that you have addressed the quoted post to others but hey ho, it's a public forum.
The evidence to the contrary is in the lack of evidence to the contrary.
For some examples, the lack of:
Distress calls from the ships which are only a few miles from land,
Insurance claims for all of the ships that have been lost,
Grieving families of the crew members that have gone down with the ships,
Rescue vessel callouts for those crew that did not go down with the ships,
A shipbuilding boom to replace all of the ships that sunk,
Insurance claims for the cargo those ships were carrying,
Debris washed on shores from those ships that have sunk, which would include huge oil slicks.
I could go on but as you probably don't want to appear a total fool, I'll leave it at that.