Coal Ship Strikes Shoals Off Great Barrier Reef, May Disintegrate.

[Queequeg]

A coal-carrying ship that strayed outside a shipping lane

Now I understand how they ended up in Italy and ignited the renaissance.

Genius.

[Caliga]

That was clever, Brain. 

I like how that dude's books keep getting wackier and wackier.

1423: The year the Chinese accidentally invented the submarine and discovered the sunken continent of Lemuria

[Josquius]

I must say my thoughts were along Neil's lines too.
It just has to be the Chinese or some other half-arsed regulations country pulling crap like this.

[Strix]

A masterful stroke of genius for the Chinese!

The next step is to blow up the ship thus creating a hole in the Barrier Reef that will allow future invasion forces to swarm through. 

[The Larch]

Apparently it has been found that the ship strayed away from the shipping lane for cargo vessels on purpose for Monoesque reasons, in order to save 2000$ in gas by taking a shorter route. Now the shipping company will be probably fined at least 1 million Aussie $ for the accident. Talk about penny wise, pound foolish.