devon beached - shipwrecked goodies anyone?

hammymad

last year where i live (near Gosport) a container fell of a cargo ship full of cuddly toys. Personally i didn't go down there but i hear the people got to keep the toys!
I'm glad that didn't happen to our area but it is devistating for the wildlife around Sidmouth.

Snow_Angel

gifteddante wrote:

I agree that animals suffering is not nice and damage to the site, but as for damage to the local economy?? If anything it will have a boost, or am I just looking at it the wrong way?

I'm afraid it won't boost it. But I can see where you're coming from. Boscastle, the year after the floods, saw a huge boost in tourism. People wanted to see the relief effort and find out how everyone was getting on (very well incidentally - it's a still a beautiful village but some wonderful buildings are gone forever). However, this accident has had such huge environmental consequences that are potentially irreversible and yes, the local economy is going to take a massive dent.

caravanlover

Snow_Angel wrote:

I do live here and I'm not interested in getting Free stuff. Our beautiful coast is covered in oil and there are lots of birds dying. Not to mention the damage to the sea and the economy for tourism. Some of the containers with dangerous chemicals have come off the ship. Not all of them can be accounted for. if they sink and stay in the sea then they are posing a permanent potential danger as they will not be moved - just left in the sea. Anyone on holiday here this year? ....... no probably not. Who wants their kids swimming in potentially dangerous water?

Can everyone please stop talking about it like it's a great thing and they wish they were here. Our beautiful World Heritage area is being destroyed before our eyes. It's the only world heritage site in England and it's heartbreaking.

If anything, the 'freebies' should be given to the locals to sell to cover the money they will lose from their usual livelihoods.

i am with you, i dont live in devon, i am nowhere near it, but i do spend three weeks at the summer and witsun and october in devon every year

myself, hubby and children love it there.

it is a tragedy what has happened, and i hope it can all be claened up, it is not something that should be laughed about, and even mocked.

myself and my fanily will NOT be put off by coming back this year

so snow angel i am with you on this one :T

flobber_2

littlejaffa wrote:

Wondering if anyone on here has scavenged 'freebies' from the beached ship of the devon coast?
News all day has been saying hundreds of people were taking things from the beach - including 2 motorbikes, perfume etc etc.
It's apparenly quite legal as long as you 'register' whatever you take incase the owner wants it back.

It made me wonder if anyone here had first hand experience of what looks like a free-for-all down there!

From the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6287457.stm
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1996029,00.html
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-01-22T194441Z_01_L21619736_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-SHIP.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C2-Business-2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6283455.stm
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-britain-ship,0,231605.story


































Tomorrow the owners are going to guard the beaches.

kez1234

come on then is someone gonna post them freebies for us all lol

FleetFanatic

I wouldn't want the bike - the engine's been flooded.

Reds_1903

I am sure the local wildlife is overjoyed with all these freebies!!!!!!!! You can never have enough oil or hazerdous waste!

Hermann

Here's the legal position with regard to collecting salvage off the beach.

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-environmental/mcga-dops_row_receiver_of_wreck/mcga-dops_row_report.htm

"The owner has one year in which to come forward and prove title to the property. During this time, the finder is normally allowed to hold the wreck on indemnity to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency(see reverse page of report from).

If the owner wants their property returned, they will first have to settle salvage with the legal finder of the material.

If wreck material recovered from UK waters is unclaimed at the end of the statutory one year period, it generally becomes the property of the Crown, and the Receiver is required to dispose of it. This may be through sale or auction, although in many cases the finder will be allowed to keep items of unclaimed wreck in lieu of salvage."

You're entitled to salvage stuff so long as you fill in the forms.

ben500

I think despite their motives these people are actually providing a service in ridding these beaches of some of the salvage, it will leave less for the local environmental authorities to deal with in the least. There's a lot of !!!! washing up there and someone's going to have to foot the bill for it short term and I suspect an abnormal portion of that burdon will also fall on the locals

Snow_Angel

This says it all :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6289371.stm