Sunken Boat Removal in Berlin, Maryland

A hurricane that missed Ocean City by fifty miles still put enough water into that center console to end it. The storm surge came up higher than the owner expected for a storm that never made landfall nearby, and the boat took on water faster than the bilge pump could keep up with overnight. By the time he checked on it the next morning, only the console top was still visible above the waterline. The engine had flooded through the intake, seized solid by the time we got there. The canal bank was soft enough that standard straps kept slipping in the mud, so we switched to a wide sling and worked the pull at an angle instead of straight up. Most of a morning on that one. With the block seized and the transom cracked from the weight of sitting swamped, it's headed straight to the scrapper.