Wreck of Tiki found
PA Invercargill The wreck of the fishing vessel Tiki has been found on the seabed by a team of police divers. The boat, sitting upright on ithe sandy bottom in about 30 metres of water, was found near the diesel slick spotted during a search for the boat last week. It has no obvious structural damage and does not appear to have been holed. The Fiordland National Park senior ranger and master of the park board vessel Renown, Mr J. Ward, said last evening that the throttle of the Tiki was in a full ahead position. He thought the crew of the boat might have been trying to get the boat’s head” to the weather, using a full power maneouvre, when it was swamped. Spectacles belonging to the boat’s skipper, William John Raymond Keen, have been recovered. Mr Keen’s body was found washed up on the shore of Secretary Island on Sunday. There has been no sign so far of the second man on board, William Trevor Pringle, aged 30, married, of Bluff.
Mr Ward said that buoys had been attached to the boat and its future would be in the hands of the insurance Company. 'He thought the boat would be salvable.
Wreck of Tiki found
Press, 7 October 1980, Page 6
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