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‘Shark’ owner refutes that vessel developed engine failure

May 19, 2013 News

 

 

The North West-bound vessel, ‘Shark’, never developed engine trouble as the Ministry of Works and Transport stated on Thursday. And the vessel never drifted until it reached Anna Regina on Friday. In fact, the vessel never reached Anna Regina when the officials said that it did.
The woman who charted the vessel, said that she was amazed to hear of engine trouble and dead batteries. She said that the vessel was loaded with goods for the North West.
She checked with Customs and Maritime Administration before leaving Port Georgetown. She said that the officials never informed her that there was an approaching storm. This storm struck when the vessel was some ten miles north of Leguan in the Atlantic Ocean.
“There were high waves and they were close to each other. They swamped the boat and before the water from the first could run off the second would hit. They washed the goods overboard and the captain did he best to keep the vessel afloat.”
When the storm passed, the boat drifted onto a sand bank where it remained until yesterday morning. In the height of the storm the Captain sent out a distress signal that caused the Maritime Administration to send its coast guard vessel, ‘Kakabelly’, in search of the ‘Shark’.
The woman said that the coast guard vessel sighted the boat which kept flashing its light at the approaching coast guard vessel. However, the ‘Kakabelly’ could not approach the sand bank.
Shark remained on the sandbank for the rest of Thursday and  Friday.
She said that with each high tide the Shark tried to get off the sand bank and it was not until yesterday that it managed to free itself. It arrived in Port Georgetown under its own steam shortly after 14:00 hours.
She said that when she read that the vessel was at Anna Regina she knew that the Ministry was being untrue because she was in contact with the vessel.
She denied that ‘Shark’ was the property of Maritime Administration. “It is a privately-owned vessel.”
It was earlier reported that ‘Shark’ had encountered engine failure some ten miles off of Leguan Island and was forced to call in for assistance. This was according to Transport Minister Robeson Benn.
Benn had stated that the coast guard vessel ‘Kakabelly’ was sent out on a rescue mission to find ‘Shark’.

 

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