I take it the beach is sand.

I wonder if it is possible to dredge around it, and then water jet the
sand out from under neath it? I've heard of this being done using fire
engine boats before....

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:41:45 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

wrote:
I take it the beach is sand.

I wonder if it is possible to dredge around it, and then water jet the
sand out from under neath it? I've heard of this being done using fire
engine boats before....



Yeah, it's all sand and sand/shell around there. I don't believe any
fireboats in the area could get close enough. It shallows up there
pretty far from shore.
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My guess is that there aren't any serious fire boats around there
unless they could coax one out of the navy fleet up in Jax. At some
point the salvage effort exceeds the value of the boat and it's
cheaper to cut it up in place and cart it away in dumpsters.

Harry Krause wrote:
wrote:
I take it the beach is sand.

I wonder if it is possible to dredge around it, and then water jet the
sand out from under neath it? I've heard of this being done using fire
engine boats before....



Yeah, it's all sand and sand/shell around there. I don't believe any
fireboats in the area could get close enough. It shallows up there
pretty far from shore.


This could be a long drawn-out process. I imagine some heads are
already in the process of rolling....

Harry, wasn't there a deal a few years back (5?) where some portugese
small freighter which was a POS ran aground in a rather ritzy beach,
and the capt. and crew abandoned it. the freight company didn't want
to pay the expense of retrieving it, and Fla had it littering the beach
for a couple years before giving it over to the salvagers???

Until then it was nothing but a mega-rusty eyesore?

i thought I rememeber seeing that briefly on the news

On 17 Dec 2005 12:17:09 -0800, wrote:

Harry, wasn't there a deal a few years back (5?) where some portugese
small freighter which was a POS ran aground in a rather ritzy beach,
and the capt. and crew abandoned it. the freight company didn't want
to pay the expense of retrieving it, and Fla had it littering the beach
for a couple years before giving it over to the salvagers???

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Palm Beach if I recall, right among the mega mansions. About as
welcome as the proverbial turd in a puch bowl.

Palm Beach if I recall, right among the mega mansions. About as
welcome as the proverbial turd in a puch bowl

Yes, I think that's the one. I remember them interviewing some old gal
that was dressed to the teeth, and the thing was sitting right about in
her back yard..er... beach.

She wasn't happy about it

Seems nobody wanted to do anything with it but she just wanted it to:

"shoo, and go away..."