Hi,

Apparently it's been there since 1987!

No-one has got around to moving it yet - too expensive I guess.

However it makes a great view from our house.

Have a look at the Photo Gallery / Liakada on our website (in my signature below) and you will see the ship in the distance in the view from our balcony and terrace. You can double click on the picture so it will come up bigger.

I would have posted it here but I haven't worked out to do that yet.

Just a suggestion to the mods, phpBB, who host this forum offer a facility ( PostImage.org ) whereby you can put pictures on posts as a thumbnail, to be clicked for a larger image.

All the HTML coding is done automatically, all you need to do is upload the image.

Mark

When I went there in 2001 a Cyprus man I was talking to said that when it had happened all those years ago there was something fishy about it and implied it was almost an insurance job or something.

Thats what I was told but who knows!

Planning to go back in 2007 and that bit of the coast would not be the same without that boat there!

Just an addition to my last post....

Also the word 'drunk' and 'storm' was mentioned????



Seriously!

It has certainly been there for a few years. It was carrying timber from Russia when it went aground.

There has, so I have been told various ideas put forward to make use of it but none have ever got beyond the ideas stage. How to get people safely out to it is the first problem.

In some ways it could be considered as dumping - yet as a landmark and talking point it would probably be missed if it was to be removed.

It sits very firmly on the rocks so the cost of removing would be expensive.

fwh

you mean this one (taken on our previous trip in 2004)

Yes I Do... Strange Isn't it

That ship was carrying timber and when it's engines failed it came aground near Chlorakas, they removed it's cargo and engines but failed to re float it, it is now a local landmark and rusting away merrily, my guess is it will remain there.

probably end up as a diving attraction when it crumbles into the water...

Ooo I hope so!

The Zenobia in Larnaca is a fab dive! (massive boat that sank years ago and still has many lorries on it)

The Paphos boat does seem quite happy and secure on those rocks

Impossible to sink that ship Steve, it is in ten meters of water, we will all watch it gently rust away, I think, although there is some local authority action committee who are trying to get this junk removed...

Jim..