‘Ghost’ boat crushed to stop it hitting the water …. again
A boat found back on the water after it had been dropped at the tip has finally met its endAn unseaworthy and unsightly boat that mysteriously evaded certain doom has been crushed by Queensland’s maritime authorities to ensure it can never go back on the water.
The boat was found back on the water this week after its owner had told the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads that it had been taken to the top and disposed of.
However, the ghost boat was this week crushed by a hydraulic digger as part of the state’s ongoing war on wrecks – a multimillion-dollar effort to locate and remove the abandoned boats littering Queensland’s waterways – after it somehow made its way back onto the water.
“Locals at Hervey Bay just spotted this unnamed vessel floating adrift in the bay—which is weird because the last time the owner saw this boat it was being dropped off at the local dump,” the department said.
“Even though the boat was aground at the time, Maritime Safety Queensland was worried it'd drift off again and become a navigational hazard to other vessels.
“Given its history (and poor condition) they decided to remove the boat and destroy it once and for all.”
As of March this year, Queensland’s statewide war on wrecks has resulted in 779 derelict vessels being removed from waterways, with 467 of them involving the intervention of Maritime Safety Queensland and its partners.
Another 352 vessels are rated as “of interest”, meaning that their owners may yet be compelled to remove them from the water.
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