The Irish Coast Guard believes the first signal came from a lifeboat that was tipped overboard, but

The remaining oil on board is not thought to be hazardous because car rental seattle of its limited quantity. However, the number of suspected rats on board could prove to be a serious biohazard, the coast guard told the press.
Chris Reynolds, the Coast Guard director told the Independent: 'There's still a bit of lubricant oil and fuel on board but it's not huge because the ship would have been emptied because it was going to scrap.
'If it is afloat, it's blacked out; there's no power and it's a hazard to shipping. The main hazard would be if it hit something at sea. The hope is that it's gone, that it's sunk, and we're hoping that the second alarm that went off was to say it had sunk.'
According to the Independent the Irish Coast Guard picked up a mid-Atlantic distress signal from one of the ship's alarms last February, but the satellite found no trace of the ship. A second alarm was picked up two weeks later.
The Irish Coast Guard believes the first signal came from a lifeboat that was tipped overboard, but it believes the second alarm came from the actual car rental seattle ship. The alarms activate when they come into contact with water.
Something very fishey car rental seattle about this yarn! ...broke away from Two towing ships? .... its location should show an any radar ... alarms sounding are the clear indication of its fate ... I suspect she was 'scuppered' to save the long haul to the Dominican Republic.
As for the rats: If they managed to get overboard on time and head for Ireland they will be met mid-atlantic by all the others swimming away from that sad Island! Maybe they can do a Rats Riverdance when they meet!