Who cleans up the floating obstacles?

[BlueSkyNick]

Quite often, large items such as the occasional 40foot container, refrigerator, new car, etc are reported floating, albeit semi-submerged, in busy waterways.

With a bit of luck the spotter has given the right co-ordinates to the Coastguard, and not provided the location of the cursor on their chart plotter or some place equally dumb.

When these obsructions are reported, who goes along and removes them, so they are not causing a danger to vessels? Or are they just left to drift on to the coast line, possibly crossing an ocean in the process?

Is there any profit to be made by recovering containers, and claiming salvage?

<hr width=100% size=1>WANTED - For House and Boat Maintenance - A large supply of round tuits.

 

[castaway]

What is a TUIT ? And what use is it is boat maintainance?

Re the Clean up issue.... I guess there will be lots of neatly terraced gardens in the east end of the Isle of Wight soon...

Regards Nick

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[Oldhand]

A TUIT is what you get round to and is very relevant to boat mainteneance.

I fear very little debris is cleared up from the sea and cargo insurers seem more willing to pay up than pay for recovery.

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[Rob_Webb]

Hopefully more of them are destroyed by collisions with the kind of bug ships they fell off in the first place than by little-uns like us.

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[Rob_Webb]

Hopefully more of them are destroyed by collisions with the kind of big ships they fell off in the first place than by little-uns like us.

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[StugeronSteve]

Mother Nature. Only prob is she takes her time about it. Must be about two zillion years for a container.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[Colin_S]

Dunno about the containers

but there's a goodly supply of tuits <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A732241>here</A>

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[Robin]

Re: Dunno about the containers

Nice one. SWMBO bought me TWO last Xmas, one for the house and one for the garden. On sale in Lymington, Quay Hill.

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[ParaHandy]

saw the marina staff lifting out enough cellular plastc decking to cover wembley this afternoon ... and then picked a huge piece 20x10' masel' with two of the young kids employed by the marina .... all blown off the building site behind us (is there anywhere along the south coast that isn't a building site?)

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