How to Salvage a Sunken Fishing Boat in Portsmouth Harbour 

Thank you Jack it was a smooth operation all around. We have another video up of a smaller boat being recovered. It's equally satisfying to watch the team in action.

In description "The salvaged steel fishing boat will now be sent to the boat scrapyard to be recycled."

@@brinkee7674 Guess I missed that part, thanks for the info. Bummer though, but I suppose since it's old it's cheaper to buy a replacement vessel than repair it. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

That's the fish hold, not the bilge

@@MichaelSmith-nd4rr sorry if you were confused, I didn't mean that it was the bilge.

@@buyamerican3191 Wait, what? He wasn't confused... now I'm confused.

@@MichaelSmith-nd4rr I believe the man was making a joke, you know what a joke is don't you?, sayings, doings etc that people find humorous....

Glad you enjoyed it

In the description it says "The salvaged steel fishing boat will now be sent to the boat scrapyard to be recycled."

@@brinkee7674 yep, thats a shame

Sadly salt water does so much damage it is very pricy and/or time consuming to resurrect one.

I hope it was well insured.

Thank you for the feedback Rob.

Dame and Jess still need to learn that lesson. Check Project Brupeg here on YT, they are just finishing a multi year rebuild + refit of a sunken fishing trawler.

@@jaquigreenlees Boats suck even when they are afloat. I can’t imagine being dumb enough to buy one that was underwater.

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Thank you Richard. There should be another soon for a small boat. We will try and get some underwater footage too.

I learned one thing from my father who owned a wooden narrowboat, NEVER buy a wooden boat of any kind, they don't stay above the surface well

She did during a particularly rough storm over a weekend. We think a window was damaged and she took on lots of excess water. This made her nose heavy and she hit the seabed hard.

@@BoatbreakersVideo Wow. It's really scary to think and devastating for the owner. Amazing to see her raised and brilliant work!

Thank you for the kind comment :)

The dent in the bow was from a previous owner. Whilst he was out fishing he hit a marker buoy hard and it had to be fixed.

@@BoatbreakersVideo he must have been at top speed to bend it that badly. the video said it was to be scrapped. can it be bought rather than scrapped?

@@robertordewald8678 Yes I think he probably was. She has already been chopped up.

Yea, cos im sure they would have been sat on board in storm Eunice.....derp....

@@markholroyde9412 It's "would have sat" or "would have been sitting" derp

No casualties during the sinking or salvage. She went down on her mooring during a big storm.

@@BoatbreakersVideo well that's good news that no injuries happened 👍

What about the sea life that was killed or affected by the oil and gas that came out of it?

:D

We blame the divers for the twist 😅thanks for watching.

Just can't get the staff these days 😂😂😂

@@31144 Nah, they discovered a barrel of RN Pussers and needed a distraction while they lifted it. I had a shot of 50 year old Polly once. Smooth as the baby's. To explain. In WW2, a ship loaded with Scots whisky bound for the US got into trouble, much like this one, and beached on a Hebridean island. The locals claimed salvage rights, and "liberated" about 20% of the cargo before the authorities got there. Another storm lifted her off the shelf she was sitting on, and she went to the bottom. The result was an Ealing Comedy, a film, Whisky Galore, which remains a classic belly-laugh. But the story didn't end there. A good few years passed, and the cargo manifests of the ship, MS Politician, were released. A local historian went white, thanked the National Archives, they could put it back now, and calmly sauntered out. The legends of Harry Potter's flying car and The Flying Scotsman may have been created in memory of his return journey to Skye. The cargo also contained a consignment of gold, and they were certain it hadn't been removed. Now, the North Sea is a place where the weather is memorable. My family were Islanders, 250 years in the Marines speaks to experience. The SAS bid for me unasked, and I turned them down - I'd discovered why the vacancy had occurred, from the Regular IRA. As you do. I made it up with them later, showing some of the blokes from the Sabre Squadron which took down the Iranian Embassy how to do a tidy job, on the Libyan one. Anyway, most of the rough-weather divers in the North Sea come from the Islands, and that made all the difference. The cupboard is bare - and for a while, if your face fit, you might share at tot. Now, Grandpa was recognisable in CPO Pertwee. One of my cousins ran The Admirable Creighton, the antiques shop on the Square in Romsey, a steady source of high-quality antiques - his dad had been butler in half the Stately Homes in the south of England. We think, at least 50. Lovejoy incarnate. Now, if I'd got wind of a 60 year old consignment of Pussers Rum, hair-on-your chest stuff, it wouldn't be any surprise to discover a nearby fishing boat inexplicably went to the bottom, and wasn't left there, now would it? Watch the wall, me darling, while the gentlemen ride by. And it makes a fine tale, at any rate.

The boat has bern cut up, it no longer exists. As stated in the title.

@@felixcat9318 Too bad, hope he had enough insurance. Side note, salvage means rescue from loss.

A bit late to try to contain oil, when she's been on the bottom for 3 weeeks

@@clivebeams9873 Someone must have missed the ball on that! Three weeks before anyone took action?

You should've supplied some since you're "most concerned"

@@SG-uh6sw You don't get it. Around here when a boat sinks they deploy an oil boom as soon as possible especially when salvaging the vessel. As I could see fuel was being released as the boat was raised. It's the environment that suffers and any good fishermen would not want to spoil their fishing grounds.

All fuels were removed because it's a training ship ⚓⚓ ⚓⚓

Doctor Who and Finn shared the same starting point, "Attack the Block!" Now, if that had been Gosport, they'd never have reacted, just another SBS exercise on the diving tower.

Thanks for watching Miles! They did a great job.

We didn't end up scrapping her. We believe she was sold on and refurbed. She's as good as new now!

This one was scrapped. She was a fishing boat that had been used as a work boat. Her fishing license was already on another boat. As she was down for over a week the engine wasn't worth us saving. The good thing about metal boats is they are almost 100% recyclable.

You do know how strong the storm was right ? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B1NC2SkEjSg.html Now imagine a small boat.

Because they empty the compartments under the deck which are filled with water.

We decided to scrap her. She was a fishing boat that no longer had a licence on her. So to be honest there was more value in the scrap. We had used her for a number of years to tow scrap boats around but this was one storm too many unfortunately.

We think that something broke a front window and in the heavy weather it started taking on water in the wheelhouse. Before eventually being too nose heavy and nose diving into the mud.

@@BoatbreakersVideo That makes sensee. Thanks for replying.

The owners decided to scrap the boat once she was recovered. A sad end for her but she had a long fishing career beforehand.

The dent in the front was from a former collision with a buoy during a fishing trip. It happened a couple of years before the sinking. We think a damaged window letting in sea water made her nose heavy and she ultimately succumbed to the storm.

You could see the tips of the aerials, so I'd guess 25 feet deep. But that's just a guess.

Scrapped.

They left him to swim Hahahahahaha

Lost at sea...

Pumping different compartments out. Plus the crane was lifting as the pumping was going on.

It was a separate compartment.

It would cost far more than the boat's value to return her to service. All the electronics would need replacing and every single mechanical and electrical system would need complete rebuild or replacement. She's scrap.

I don't think so. She'd been hard used, in my view. Looked like her days were done.

It had been under for about a week during heavy storms at the time.

All the electronics will be useless,the whole hydraulic system would be contaminated and as you pointed out it's up for a very expensive engine rebuild , all in all you'd be looking at a small fortune to get it back fishing again.

@@bigsmoke6189 And the Environ mentalists would have wanted it melted down anyway. You never know what's down there. And beneath it was the bloke in the bowler 'at. And that's that.

Not for us, we've used her for a number of years before she went down. Makes more sense for us to have her recycled now. She had a long life as a fishing boat and then as our work boat. Sadly a victim of one storm too many!

The boat was under for about a week during heavy storms at the time. After being lifted out and checked over there was some underlying structural issues with the hull. So the owner decided to have the engine out and have the rest cut up.

We think that one of the windows or the door took a beating in a big storm. Then it eventually flooded and became nose heavy. The dent at the bow was from a previous owner who hit a buoy whilst out fishing.

They were watching the bloke filming, and missing the real story.

I believe that the hold will not be open to the water, so the pump will start being effective once they lifted the boat a little and kept it bow down. Anyway they got it out.

Yeah but 9 times out of 10 it's cheaper to scrap a sunken boat and buy a new one than to refloat and refit it