No one has said or implied otherwise.
aceplace57, I wasn’t knocking your linked source. I repeated it in my post as it appears in yours. I was laughing at the story and how it was treated in the OP link and thereafter.
Willard joins the Navy!
Willard joins McHale’s Navy.
I’ve seen this story a couple places, and some of the posts in the comment sections are sadly hilarious. Some people seem to think there’s a new, scary breed of super Cannibal Rat on this ship, not simply rats that are eating dead (or not) rats.
When I first saw this thread title I didn’t click on it. I thought it was a plot for a movie. Then I saw it on a news source. Its for real!
Someone got a helicopter? Lets get some videos of this. But, I am sure they won’t do justice to what I have imagined it to be.
You overestimate the reality of the situation.
As far as I have seen, no one has actually found the ship, let alone determined the dining habits of any rats that might still be aboard. It was lost off the Dominican Republic–across the Atlantic Ocean from the locations mentioned in the article–and has not been seen since last April. It has probably sunk, and if it has managed to stay afloat, it’s just an empty derelict ship; as Princhester said, there wouldn’t have been anything on board to sustain a substantial rat population. The author of the article appears to have latched onto a random missing ship to fulfill a frustrated anachronistic urge to write for the pulps.
None of which has stopped me from contemplating possible verses for a “(Rat) King of the Cannibal Islands”/“Swing a Cat” mashup, of course. 
Okay, that’s starting to sound like “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”.
My husband, Andy L, says, “I’ve had it up to here with those @#% rats on my @#% ship!”
NBC Nightly News bought into the whole hyped story last night. However, video of the story is surprisingly missing from their web archive of last night’s broadcast.
ok. I appreciate the clarification. 
The story has been over hyped.
That was absolutely my first thought when I heard about that ship.
From what I gather, the part about the ship being set adrift is fact, and the part about the ship full of cannibal rats comes from an old crusty seafaring salvage hunter talking about what he expects to find. They never exaggerate. 
Are rats always, automatically on large ships these days?
Cannibal rats of unusual size? I don’t think they really exist.
whack!
Thanks Balance, I think. You really popped my balloon. I was imagining these huge rats with gnarling canine teeth and nothing could stop them. Oh well, back to the regularly scheduled programing. But it could make a good movie, no?
Spoilsports 
From the above link:
Because by this time, those that have survived through the eating of the others’ brains have exponentially increased their intelligence and are now fishing, have outwitted all the puny hewmen searching for the ship and are contentedly sipping brandy as the ship’s chess finals begin.
OK, so has anyone heard anything about this recently. Have the radioactive cannibal zombie rats made landfall? Or has the ship sunk?
The latest I can find is an article from late January, which is inconclusive. I guess this type of thing catches the world’s attention for a few days and just vanishes.
Until someone is eaten by a radioactive, cannibal rat.