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an unanswered question - Why did the boat sink?


I just watched part 3 and thought that the ending could have been a lot better. Despite that it was a really well made series.

The one thing I didn't get is why the boat sank. Did they ever really explain that? If they did, I missed it somehow.


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they jus said that all the illegals got infected but then somethin happened on the boat and it sunk. they never explained that bit.

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it probably just sank and hadnt got anything to do with what it was transporting.
like mike said ... they dogded the bullet.

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I think it went like this:

Begin Spoilers

Remember near the end of the third episode they found a survivor from the sunken ship. Adam Kadyrov manages to slip past the policeman at the hospital dressed as a janitor. He asks the survivor what happened on the ship.The guy tells Adam how the captain starts killing some of the passengers because he isn't getting enough money out of it. Now here's the solution ( i think ) - The survivor sees it all happening from the bridge because he is the helmsman, he's steering the ship. He gets so overwhelmed and shocked by seeing his captain shooting the illegal refugees that he fears for his own life, leaves the bridge and probably jumps off-board ( this isn't actually shown, i'm just guessing that part ), leaving the ship astray, whereas it probably hits something and sinks.

End Spoilers

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As much as I remember, somewhere near the end is it explained the way silvertip did.

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The helmsman jumped overboard when the shooting started and as no one was steering the ship, he presumed that it hit a reef and sank.

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