You've read about our visits to Scrub Island. It's such a nice place, with the fine dining, pool, and friendly people. We had been told that the resort was getting a brand new ferry...one that could transport their guests in style to and from the dock next to the airport. It was delivered, finally, and started it's service runs.
Unfortunately, after a couple of weeks into the service it became necessary to haul the boat back out of the water for some repair work...the captain (with passengers) ran the boat up onto the "well-marked" reef..............
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| There she is in all her "glory" |
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| Damage to the bow |
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| Nothin' that a little bit of bondo couldn't fix |
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Kinda adds new meaning to the description
about a boat being a hole in the water that you
dump a whole lot of money into |
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I have my hand extended clear up into the deck area
This hole is on the RH side of the boat...there's a
matching one on the other side. |
There didn't appear to be any damage to the engine assemblies, but I'm sure there was a lot of pride left on the reef. At least the boat didn't sink...it was mostly perched high and dry on top of the reef.
Karen was able to dive The Rhone, finally. We had great weather, but due to a lot of tiny critters in the water, visibility was fairly poor. She still had a great time...it's one of the dives she has wanted to do. The wreck site is spread over about 800' of seabed. The area we concentrated on (the stern section) was the same one Tom Rambow and I went to in April. The middle and bow sections are in deeper water and we'll probably need to try that one next year.
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| Karen's prerequisite photo next to The Rhones propeller |
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| Some of the ship's ribs |
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| A 30" horse-eyed Jack that swam next to us |
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| A school of squirrel fish in the wreckage |
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| I followed Karen around some of the adjacent reef area |
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| Karen is swimming past some of the wreck |
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