Comments on: Devon Beach-Combers Lap Up Wrecked Ship Cargo http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/ Taking a different one on the news Sat, 19 May 2012 12:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Roger Thomas http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-7004 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:35:20 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-7004 Not sure whether Eliza or theo were personaly responsible for beaching the ship Sam. Though I take your point. Don't think I would be practical to chock up a 60,000 plus tonne ship, but I can't see why steel ropes etc could not have been used to secure the containers. Last I heard another 8 containers had fallen off. 100 plus in total and nearly 300 have been taken off. The containers that haven't washed up on the beach supposed to be fun, apparently they tend to float just under the surface, waiting for smaller craft to run into them. Not sure whether Eliza or theo were personaly responsible for beaching the ship Sam. Though I take your point. Don’t think I would be practical to chock up a 60,000 plus tonne ship, but I can’t see why steel ropes etc could not have been used to secure the containers. Last I heard another 8 containers had fallen off. 100 plus in total and nearly 300 have been taken off. The containers that haven’t washed up on the beach supposed to be fun, apparently they tend to float just under the surface, waiting for smaller craft to run into them.

]]> by: sam cox http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-7001 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:49:43 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-7001 IF you knew 3 days before you beached it why didn't you put standing blocks under it so it could sit squarely on the sea bed then the contaners would not of have fallen off. from sam cox age 10 IF you knew 3 days before you beached it why didn’t you put standing blocks under it so it could sit squarely on the sea bed then the contaners would not of have fallen off.

from sam cox age 10

]]> by: theo http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-4924 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:01:01 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/23/devon-beach-combers-lap-up-wrecked-ship-cargo/#comment-4924 The local moonrakers are up in arms as the townies from everywhere else descend on the picturesque beaches of north Devon to pillage and scavenge the rightful pickings of the traditional shipwrecking local. hundreds of years of expectations have been swept on to the rocks of modernity as Devonian natives are beaten to the free swag sweeping in on the oily tides of the Atlantic and they are mightily pissed off and whose to blame them as their heritage coastline is basted in heavy oil and BMW motorbikes? Amongst the comments of righteous indignation garnered by the news companies was this from the Wrecks and salvage overseer of south west England and Cornwall who saw children as young as... "Six or seven, sitting on the beach , unsupervised, in freezing tempretures as their parents scavenged container wreckage..". Oh those irresponsible scavenging parents! Uncle Tom Cobbley defended himself against the charges by declaring himself a beachcomber and an environmentalist merelyt cleaning up after the Chinese container ship company. One other woman , a Swede, exporting her worldly goods to somewhere else saw her treasures being picked over on the beaches and was very upset to see her father's " embroideries" on the sands.. I thought that was a given risk, a ship sinking but no she was "shattered" and "hoped they would hand it in.." The local moonrakers are up in arms as the townies from everywhere else descend on the picturesque beaches of north Devon to pillage and scavenge the rightful pickings of the traditional shipwrecking local. hundreds of years of expectations have been swept on to the rocks of modernity as Devonian natives are beaten to the free swag sweeping in on the oily tides of the Atlantic and they are mightily pissed off and whose to blame them as their heritage coastline is basted in heavy oil and BMW motorbikes? Amongst the comments of righteous indignation garnered by the news companies was this from the Wrecks and salvage overseer of south west England and Cornwall who saw children as young as… “Six or seven, sitting on the beach , unsupervised, in freezing tempretures as their parents scavenged container wreckage..”. Oh those irresponsible scavenging parents! Uncle Tom Cobbley defended himself against the charges by declaring himself a beachcomber and an environmentalist merelyt cleaning up after the Chinese container ship company. One other woman , a Swede, exporting her worldly goods to somewhere else saw her treasures being picked over on the beaches and was very upset to see her father’s ” embroideries” on the sands.. I thought that was a given risk, a ship sinking but no she was “shattered” and “hoped they would hand it in..”

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