When ships are being towed to the scuttling port and bad weather is imminent or encountered then often the ship is cut
free or moored in a safe haven so that the Tug towing them is not sunk as well. Sometimes they "find" them sometimes
they "find" the shore themselve .... If the storm is big enough sometimes they are never found and lost at sea but are
still floating ..... as the cost of the search mounts then proportionately the profit from recovery shrinks...
...Remember the Sydney ferries at SWR in 1972? ........ Wooooooops.......
http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/kato/trial%20bay.htm
http://www.southwestrocks.org/gallery/sights/ferries/index2.html
@colic2bullsgirlore wrote:When ships are being towed to the scuttling port and bad weather is imminent or encountered then often the ship is cut
free or moored in a safe haven so that the Tug towing them is not sunk as well. Sometimes they "find" them sometimes
they "find" the shore themselve .... If the storm is big enough sometimes they are never found and lost at sea but are
still floating ..... as the cost of the search mounts then proportionately the profit from recovery shrinks...
...Remember the Sydney ferries at SWR in 1972? ........ Wooooooops.......
http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/kato/trial%20bay.htm
http://www.southwestrocks.org/gallery/sights/ferries/index2.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johncowper/5490830913/
That was interesting, thanks, colics. I'd never heard that before.
