Reporter Sees Ship Lowering Tires into the Sea, Then Finds Out Why

Hitting the jackpot

And then they found a page that explained the purpose clearly. The operations had fallen under outside control by an unknown group two years earlier. Since then, the group had lived on board, placing pressure on the captain to dump thousands of tires to create navigation hazards.

These barriers would completely interfere with passing vessels, making boarding and robbing helpless vessels far easier.