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Default Ken Barnes rescue pictures

"Roger Long" wrote
One of those fishing boats would do well to tow it in.


I'm curious why something like that wasn't done. Sinking it seems wasteful
to me, but what do I know?

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-sailorw...,5429998.story
He scuttled his boat, The Privateer, so that it would not present a hazard
to other vessels.

"The boat is about 3,000 feet underwater," Barnes said. "I already put a
quarter-million dollars into it and it would have taken a million dollars to
recover it" - an estimate confirmed by search and rescue officials in the
Chilean navy.