Your very own wreck

[The Image ™]

I was talking to someone last weekend who keeps patching up old decrepid boats (that he gets for free) and I asked him if he was getting them up and running to sell etc and he said he was sinking them somewhere in a designated spot that he has a grid ref for so that he has his very own wreck that only he knows about. When he said it I thought that sounds so logical I wonder why it hasn't cropped up before. Is it legal though?

[chrisp]

I wouldn't think it was, it would be a hazard to navigation and the Admiralty may have something to say. There is also the environmental concerns if there are any polutants left on the boat. Good idea though. The problem may be that if these are small boats they may get moved round in the winter storms.

[The Image ™]

I guess that once he pulls the plug out and lets go of the head rope, who's to know. If it's deep water I suppose it wouldn't be too much of a navigational hazard except for trawl nets that could be caught on it. The boat I saw him with was a timber barge like you see on canals. Having said all that, I'm sure there'll be some legislation somewhere to say it's wrong but if it's far out then who'd see. I never thought to ask him if it were inside the 6 mile limit. It's also feasible that he was feeding me full of you know what! Surely it would take too many boats to make anything substantial enough to improve the fishing.

[capnjack]

actually its a blummin good idea if there was enough of them it would stop the queenie and other boats trawlin u should see what they have done to the sea bed on the clyde totally decimated sunken boats or as the americans are doing chaining tyres together and creating instant reefs thefish move in almost straight away

[The Image ™]

Who do we contact to form an artificial reef?

[capnjack]

think about the coastline being protected as well and if the electricty compamnies got involved they could also use man made reefs to house tidal generators ? sounds good to me ;D ;D

[tompa]

admin said:

Who do we contact to form an artificial reef?

I would start with the coastguard as I suspect they would have something to say about it.

[cliffnorry]

I rember the tyers idea was put forward to the goverment 50 years ago, but nothing came of it, I am not usualy a bad minded person' but I hope that he is droping them were the trawlers do a grate job of ruining the sea bed, he should put a mine in the cabin' do you recon I am not to fond of trawlers?

[fester]

Take a look at this.........................

www.sams.ac.uk/research/animal%20environment/artificial.htm

Quite interesting, all that building rubble going to landfill sites could be put to good use.

[stevo]

I'm pretty sure that the americans formed reefs, etc with old military vehicles, tanks and stuff.

Great idea for protecting marine life from netters, etc.

[cliffnorry]

if a number of reef's were created all over Caernarfon bay, it would not interfear with any shiping or the ferrys, it would turn the bay into a paridice for breading fish, create a mecor for the angling public, there by increaseing customers for the port, hotels , lockel busness, and a grate deal more money for the small trawlers that turned their boats into angling boats, with a regard for the breading seasons and a catch limit, it could realy put the north Wales coast on the world angling map,