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Missing barge finally found in waters just outside Boston Harbor
By adamg on Wed, 12/05/2018 - 5:28pm
The Coast Guard reports a Quincy Police crew found a barge that capsized Sunday morning just north of one of the main shipping channels into Boston Harbor, about two miles south of Nahant, near the entrance to the harbor.
A Quincy Police crew with sonar found what appeared to be the barge in about 100 feet of water yesterday. The finding of the bard, the Dredge 200, was confirmed today, the Coast Guard says.
Close coordination with the Boston Harbor Pilots was crucial to ensure maritime commerce impacts were limited and deep draft vessels carrying vital goods were able to safely transit into Boston.
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Quincy police has side scan sonar?
This is the kind of police expenditure I don't understand. Surely there's not so much demand for side scan sonar rigs that the Staties or some other entity can just have a unit available for any police force to use when needed. Feel free to explain why I'm wrong...
Maybe the Staties have a
Maybe the Staties have a surplus submarine to bring to the party.
Perhaps the number of incidents in the quarries
over the years has something to do with it. Still, I do consider it odd that the Quincy Police made the discovery, and not the Coast Guard , who one might presume would also have access to side scan radar.
The news story
made it sound like all search units were working in concert in the general area so it's only chance that Quincy PD found it - could have been any of the involved units.
Side scsn sonar is not expensive
Side scan sonar is available in consumer-grade fish finders at modest cost, well under a $1000. Several brands are available. Lowrance is one. If you ever need to look for an object in the water, it makes a lot of sense.
Thanks!
That's interesting info.
Coast Guard most likely put
Coast Guard most likely put out an all call for any warm bodies in the general area they could put on their own equipment. I'd be willing to bet that's why QPD found the barge.
No kidding, imagine the fancy
No kidding, imagine the fancy gadgets the BPD has!
I think the question has to be asked
How many more barges are going to be fished out by the police before people start to realize that we are dealing with a serial killer?
You win.
You win.
Smiley barge killer?
Smiley barge killer?