Low Tide -- Shipwreck in Boothbay, Maine
by Darin Volpe
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Low Tide -- Shipwreck in Boothbay, Maine
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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The fishing boat Sarah C. has been accumulating seaweed with each rising tide since sinking in the Back River in Boothbay Maine, over a decade ago.
It prowled the waters of New England since the 1960s as a shrimper, then as a converted groundfishing boat from the 80's into the twenty-first century. After its conversion, it fished Maine's waters for those species that dwelled near the sea floor including, among others, cod, halibut, and haddock. Business boomed until the mid-1990s, when government regulations were put in place to rebuild the depleted groundfish stocks.
The 62-foot fishing boat was built in 1959, but after five decades on the water her wooden hull finally gave up and she sank to the bottom at it's mooring near Hodgon Island in Boothbay, Maine.
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December 2nd, 2023
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