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£41,000 Sunk on Boat Recovery and Disposal
Details of the cost of recovering the boat, which sank in 2021, have been revealed after an FoI request.
The gov spent £41,591,22 re-floating, cleaning up and disposing of a boat which sunk in Peel Harbour.
Details of the cost of recovering the boat, which sank in 2021, have been revealed after an FoI request.
The former fishing boat, Claire Anne, sank on May 25 2021 and began leaking diesel while harbour staff tended to the pumps, deployed a counter pollution boom around the vessel and cordoned off the area.
That immediate response led to costs of £2,380 to deal with the pollution and a further £353.52 for booms and absorbents. A diving team cost a further £1,086 and the Fire Service cost £3,052.
Having deteriorated further, the boat was eventually disposed of, these works included £10,000 for the wheelhouse to be stripped and for the engine to be removed, £3,500 in charges to dispose of the timber and £2,500 breaking charges for her keel.
A previous FoI detailed an email sent from the harbour master to the person who had owned the boat in February 2021. In that email, Mark Kenyon said a similar disposal operation on another boat had cost over £20,000 and the cost had been ‘passed onto the owner’. However, there is no indication if this had occurred in this instance.
The FoIs can be found in full by searching ‘Claire Anne’ at https://services.gov.im/freedom-of-information/.
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