The Giant Logs from Bermuda Find New Home on Grace Island
Scott Neil
The Royal Gazette
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Hamilton (Bermuda):Some of the dozen or so mystery logs that have washed up in Bermuda during the past month have found a new home.A number of the large bits of lumber, which measure in length from 60 to 80 feet, were loaded up from a storage depot at Dockyard and were shipped to Grace Island where they are expected to be chopped up and used for team-building games and exercises.Marines and Ports’ Aids to Navigation staff used a heavy lifting hoist to pull the logs on board the Dragon buoy tender before sailing to Grace Island to drop them off.
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Giant Logs in Bermudian Waters from Ship Wreck?
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The mystery of where the logs have come from has still not been categorically solved, but the latest investigations by world famous beachcomber Curtis Ebbesmeyer point to a container ship spilling around 500 logs from its load when it became caught in a storm while sailing from Houston to Oman in the Middle East.
It is thought the logs went overboard in early May and have been drifting on the ocean currents ever since.
They made landfall at various points around the coast of Bermuda in September and October.One log was pulled from the sea 11 miles off St. George’s after an alert was raised by fishermen about the dangerous flotsam.
That particular log was eventually located by the Marines and Ports team after a five-hour search.Some of the logs have found their way through the reef onto beaches, including Ariel Sands, Clearwater and Tucker’s Town, raising concerns that, as well as posing a danger to any vessels or water craft, they might also be causing damage to the parts of the reef if they come ashore during low tide.
Clues about the origin of the logs have come from the discovery of metal identity tags on some of the pieces, which seemed to point to an Oregon-based company being the supplier of the poles.
Oct 21, 2005
Scott NeilThe Royal Gazette
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Hamilton (Bermuda):Some of the dozen or so mystery logs that have washed up in Bermuda during the past month have found a new home.A number of the large bits of lumber, which measure in length from 60 to 80 feet, were loaded up from a storage depot at Dockyard and were shipped to Grace Island where they are expected to be chopped up and used for team-building games and exercises.Marines and Ports’ Aids to Navigation staff used a heavy lifting hoist to pull the logs on board the Dragon buoy tender before sailing to Grace Island to drop them off.
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See Archive:
Giant Logs in Bermudian Waters from Ship Wreck?
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The mystery of where the logs have come from has still not been categorically solved, but the latest investigations by world famous beachcomber Curtis Ebbesmeyer point to a container ship spilling around 500 logs from its load when it became caught in a storm while sailing from Houston to Oman in the Middle East.
It is thought the logs went overboard in early May and have been drifting on the ocean currents ever since.
They made landfall at various points around the coast of Bermuda in September and October.One log was pulled from the sea 11 miles off St. George’s after an alert was raised by fishermen about the dangerous flotsam.
That particular log was eventually located by the Marines and Ports team after a five-hour search.Some of the logs have found their way through the reef onto beaches, including Ariel Sands, Clearwater and Tucker’s Town, raising concerns that, as well as posing a danger to any vessels or water craft, they might also be causing damage to the parts of the reef if they come ashore during low tide.
Clues about the origin of the logs have come from the discovery of metal identity tags on some of the pieces, which seemed to point to an Oregon-based company being the supplier of the poles.
Oct 21, 2005
