alijtaylor
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They sank it in November.
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=118655&highlight=Wellington
After a storm at the Weekend it seems it is reappearing
"The storm that lashed the lower North Island over the weekend has caused wreckage from an old navy frigate sunk near Wellington last year, to be washed ashore.
The former HMNZS Wellington was sold for $1 to the Sink F69 Trust which sunk it about 500 metres off Island Bay virtually in Cook Strait on November 14.
Prior to the sinking Island Bay man, Nick Dryden, a former deep sea fishermen and diving instructor, said the lightly built ship would break up very quickly and become a danger to divers, not the tourist and diving mecca the trust claimed it would be.
Divers were likely to die, he said at the time.
Yesterday Island Bay resident Ken Findlay said he was walking on the beach when he came across the wreckage, scattered the length of the beach.
Mr Findlay said the wreckage was so extensive that his initial response was to start looking for bodies as he thought the storm had caused a fishing boat to sink.
However on closer inspection he realised the debris had come from the sunken frigate..."
Full story is here http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3593947a11,00.html
Alison
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=118655&highlight=Wellington
After a storm at the Weekend it seems it is reappearing
"The storm that lashed the lower North Island over the weekend has caused wreckage from an old navy frigate sunk near Wellington last year, to be washed ashore.
The former HMNZS Wellington was sold for $1 to the Sink F69 Trust which sunk it about 500 metres off Island Bay virtually in Cook Strait on November 14.
Prior to the sinking Island Bay man, Nick Dryden, a former deep sea fishermen and diving instructor, said the lightly built ship would break up very quickly and become a danger to divers, not the tourist and diving mecca the trust claimed it would be.
Divers were likely to die, he said at the time.
Yesterday Island Bay resident Ken Findlay said he was walking on the beach when he came across the wreckage, scattered the length of the beach.
Mr Findlay said the wreckage was so extensive that his initial response was to start looking for bodies as he thought the storm had caused a fishing boat to sink.
However on closer inspection he realised the debris had come from the sunken frigate..."
Full story is here http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3593947a11,00.html
Alison
