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Ghost Ship to meet its maker |
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Written by DeadGirl
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Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
By Vanessa Mills
22 September 2004
The "Ghost Ship" is about to be scuppered.
But not as an artificial reef or a dive wreck – it’s going to the tip.
The unusual shaped fishing vessel has become an unlikely icon and unofficial tourist attraction on the foreshore of Broome's Roebuck Bay over the past year and a half.
Registered as High Aim 6, everyone simply calls it the ghost ship.
It’s a Taiwanese fishing boat that was found drifting without its crew off the Kimberley coast in January 2003. Its hold was filled with tonnes of rotting fish and in the captain's cabin there were the signs of life such as cigarettes and reading glasses.
The discovery sparked an international investigation but the whereabouts of the crew or why the boat was abandoned remains mystery.
Certainly the Taiwanese owner didn’t want High Aim 6 back and that left Federal authorities in a dilemma about what to do with the 24 metre vessel... until now.
Plans to sink it as a dive wreck have been rejected because it could become a shipping hazard or an environmental threat. The boat had been leaking diesel and couldn’t be burnt because of its fibreglass hull.
Over the next few weeks the ghost ship will be broken up and taken to the Broome tip, which hasn’t made everyone happy.
Talkback callers to ABC Radio Kimberley's breakfast programme expressed their disappointment, even outrage.
Broome Fishing Club member Kevin Blatchford says the plans for it to be a wreck would have been marvellous but they were hamstrung by red tape and money.
Howwever it's understood that a group of Broome businessmen might be mounting a last ditch effort to turn the ghost ship into a tourist attraction.
The High Aim 6 is showing signs of deterioration – it’s sitting on the red mudflats day after day & listing heavily. Curiously, it does seem to have nine lives; having survived cyclones while other boats were wrecked or damaged.
The boat is also in a lot of photo albums!
A local professional photographer says it's the third most popular attraction to take a snap of, behind the staircase to the moon and boabs.
Roebuck Bay won’t be the same for Roger Colless when the ghost ship goes.
Roger runs the local hovercraft operation at the Broome port and the High Aim 6 has been parked in his 'front yard' for the past 20 months.
Just a few metres from the edge of his lawn, Roger says it's been a popular backdrop for wedding photos.
http://www.abc.net.au/kimberley/stories/s1204140.htm |
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