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"On the fourth of February we actually got informed about a life raft that beached itself
on The Coorong. From there uh... we quickly uh... sent a couple of our marine safety
officers down; secured it so it couldn't become a navigation hazard again
uhm... contacted the insurer
and organized the salvage of it and it's, it's culminated in the outcome with
insurers actually appointed a local in Kingston to salvage it and it's
going to be removed this Saturday
the fifteenth or the sixteenth of uh... February. It came from a soya bean bulk
carrier that was traveling from Brazil to China with seventy-three thousand tonnes of
soya beans when it hit the rocks at Nightingale Island.
When the vessel broke up and sunk the life boats would have come, would have come free
and drifted off
and uh... drifted
down one of the currents
to the uh... clockwise current around the Antarctic and, uh...
ended up on our shores so it's fascinating.
If you plot the course it's eight thousand kilometres or thereabouts.
This one's unique because it's actually come, come up on our shores and we've had to
trace it back on a two-year history to work out where the thing came from and
the rightful owner or the
insurer was so that's the tricky bit.
Ah... it's going to be displayed as uh... local museum piece down at Kingston on the South East
right next to the lighthouse. It's going to form part of the National Trust maritime uh...
display at Kingston so it'll be great.
It's actually a really nice outcome for both the locals and the insurer; the insurer doesn't have to
scrap the vessel where there's a cost and the locals get something that's washed up on
their beach as a piece of history for The Coorong and the South East
so I think it worked out really well for all all round."