Charter boat overturns off mooloolaba

[Boat Hog]

Apparently an underfloor kill tank void that should have been foam fill and water tight sealed. It became unsealed, filled with water throughout the day and the boat was too far gone before the skipper notice. He put out the mayday, got everyone in PFD's and in the water, waited for it to roll on its back and then got everyone in the tunnel to help came along.

Sounds to me like the marine surveyor is going to be neck deep in the @#$ over this. That said, I am surprised it got that bad without someone noticing sooner.

Has SNAPPERCOFFIN got any conflicting or better details than this?

Gee morphias, I was going to give you a bollocking for posting facts on Ausfish, but then on closer inspection you did start your post with the right word; "Apparently" ......

Okay, back to the speculation .......

[Captain Seaweed]

Aparently...upon further investigation they discovered for a split second the North and South poles had inverted causing a momentarily loss of understanding between hull and sky. They didnt want to freak anyone out early considering the end of the world is coming in a few weeks according to the Incas....Apparently they think so.


BTW PUI

Cheers
Marty

[thelump]

You guys are all off your collective heads. What happened was they were out fishing when a boat passed them by and the skipper yelled "look there is a guy on that boat that once played for NSW in a winning State of Origin side"all the punters rushed to one side to see such a rare animal and the rest, my friends, is history.

[HOW BIG?]

Apparently an underfloor kill tank void that should have been foam fill and water tight sealed. It became unsealed, filled with water throughout the day and the boat was too far gone before the skipper notice. He put out the mayday, got everyone in PFD's and in the water, waited for it to roll on its back and then got everyone in the tunnel to help came along.

Sounds to me like the marine surveyor is going to be neck deep in the @#$ over this. That said, I am surprised it got that bad without someone noticing sooner.

Has SNAPPERCOFFIN got any conflicting or better details than this?

Could one of these also be called a 'Snappercoffin' by any chance?
It'd kind of explain why he's so defensive about it all given the fact it seems it was actually him that was the cause.

[cobiaman]

You guys are all off your collective heads. What happened was they were out fishing when a boat passed them by and the skipper yelled "look there is a guy on that boat that once played for NSW in a winning State of Origin side"all the punters rushed to one side to see such a rare animal and the rest, my friends, is history.

More like " there's an actual qlder that plays for qld..."

[SNAPPERCOFFIN]

I was not being defensive just putting the story right from first hand knowledge not all the crap some of you might think you know. And no their is no big cover up and their wasn't a second shooter is the grassy knoll. And How Big does not refer to IQ obviously. Also why would you fill a kill tank with foam wouldn't get much fish in it so it would have to been a void in the boat that was filled with foam but a loose breather pipe had spilt fuel into it over time eating the foam away and the water filled this void as for the water getting in was not found where as the boat was towed in upside down for 9 miles and the cabin was ripped off some where along the way in the final report. No one has been charged or fined or will be. So this is all I know you guys can go off and make up whatever you like as per 80% of the posts on Ausfish.

[cormorant]

Survey foam being eaten by fuel- that shouldn't be possible ? How old was boat and what was the boat as it won't be a one off unless the fish box was put in after production a or a floor storage made into a fishbox. ?.

Goodluck to them with insurance company and hope they get it sorted. .

[Horse]

I think the leaking fuel is a bit of a cover up. I heard they put a Giant Flying Octopus into the kill tank. It tried to take off and the rest is history

[Jarrah Jack]

I thought the kill tank was for dead etec's and they tried to put another one in but it resurrected for a minute and did the damage. Strangly it was the same length of time it originally lasted.

[shane450]

I was not being defensive just putting the story right from first hand knowledge not all the crap some of you might think you know. And no their is no big cover up and their wasn't a second shooter is the grassy knoll. And How Big does not refer to IQ obviously. Also why would you fill a kill tank with foam wouldn't get much fish in it so it would have to been a void in the boat that was filled with foam but a loose breather pipe had spilt fuel into it over time eating the foam away and the water filled this void as for the water getting in was not found where as the boat was towed in upside down for 9 miles and the cabin was ripped off some where along the way in the final report. No one has been charged or fined or will be. So this is all I know you guys can go off and make up whatever you like as per 80% of the posts on Ausfish.

LOL no not defensive at all .....

[Qlder1]

There was another boat a few years ago that sank after being called "unsinkable" so my guess is they probly also hit a iceberg

[snapperdan]

carghhh

ye be all wrong.

Twas pirates i say, Pirates that took that hull to davy jones locker.

[Almako]

I hope all of the dudes don't lose their confidence to get back out there again.
Pretty scary stuff I reckon.

[Crunchy]

"...........whoops, beaten to it......

[Muddy Toes]

"...........whoops, beaten to it......

Great minds........