Anyone remember the Korean Star?
Submitted by Gadsy on Sat, 2013-08-17 16:52
Here's some photos taken a couple of days after she ran aground. Shows you the power of the ocean the way the hull is peeled back like a tin 
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Callum24
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sorry mate never heard bout
sorry mate never heard bout this where is it and what happened
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Gadsy
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Carnarvon way back in the 80s
Ran aground near Camp rock.
Leemo
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sure as hell doesn't look
sure as hell doesn't look like that now haha. Trying to find some pics I took recently
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chris raff
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Blast from the past .. hey
Blast from the past .. hey Gadsy can't you read the sign haha .. here's a link Callum
http://www.amsa.gov.au/environment/major-historical-incidents/Korean_Star/index.asp
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Bazooked
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geez not much left of that
geez not much left of that now!, some massive mackies used to swin around in that hull! talkin 100lbers
Gadsy
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ha ha
Some local Carnarvonites were in the stern try to salvage stuff and there was still smoke pouring out of the wreckage! It was a bit hairy climbing up that ladder thats for sure!
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Remember that very well. My
Remember that very well. My mates were up there not long after that (I was in England at the time). And they had some good pics of it too. The next days the boys were at the boundry fishing and were hit by a king wave. One was lucky not to have been killed and nearly lost his ear after getting it sliced on the oysters on the rocks. Feel I was lucky to have missed that trip. They reckon the rocks they were standing on were as dry as a bone.
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petermac
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my mate
my mate Bob Ward from Carnarvon actually got a rope on to it and claimed salvage rights according to Wardy the SASR boys got on board not long after it ran aground and blew up the radio room, Wardy himself got all all the fuel and oil pumped of it and made a killing ( but this all according to Wardy)
meglodon
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radio room
Why would you "blow up" the radio room
petermac
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why would you
because of the wattage they can transmit at
Rob H
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dont understand?
dont understand?
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
carnarvonite
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Radios
There was even bigger radios already in Carnarvon in one of the fishing company workshops .
The reason I got on why it was blown up is that it was to stabilise the two halves and make them safe because the public was just about crawling all over it.
One of its lifeboats is still in use here in town
carnarvonite
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Salvage
They built the road down the hill , set up a big flying fox and cut it in to movable sections and carted it away as scrap.
I first saw it about a fortnight after it came ashore and the army boys had blasted the bottom out of it to settle it and stop it moving about.
All that's left now are some steel plates on the shore where they have washed up after a cyclone.
Gadsy
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i believe it was the captains first command
and he topped himself unfortunately as the ship dragged its anchor in stormy seas.
tailor marc
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What great pics!!!!!!!
What great pics!!!!!!! Allways wonderd what it looked like just after it happend. Thanks for sharing.
When i went up last nov it was my mission to capture in photos what was left as best as possible. Not much left now. Crazy power of the ocean up there...
Whats left of the Korean Star shipwreck. Smashed halfway up the cliff face by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Whats left of the Korean Star shipwreck. Smashed halfway up the cliff face by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Whats left of the Korean Star shipwreck. Smashed halfway up the cliff face by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Wreckage of the Korean star smashed against the cliff by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Wreckage of the Korean star by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
20 meters out from the base of the cliffs lie's submerged wreckage of the Korean star by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Wreckage of the Korean star smashed against the cliff by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
Whats left of the Korean Star shipwreck. Smashed halfway up the cliff face by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr
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I remember when that happened
I remember when that happened too. Was still living in Carnarvon at the time. Went down to have a look a couple of weeks later and security had it all blocked off.
I actually jumped in for a look a couple of years ago and there is still huge chunks of it lying on the bottom. Awesome fish life around it butt lots of sharks as well.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
TorquenFish
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Fuck that! I've lost dozens
Fuck that! I've lost dozens of fish to those sharks there - you couldn't pay me to go for a swim!
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. Mate off mine on the rocks
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Thanks
Thanks for sharing the pics Gadsy.
Not much left now.
Gadsy
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no worries :)
thanks too to Marc for the "after" photos to show the ravages of time on the wreck.
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No probs :)
No probs :)
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Thought someone was going to
Thought someone was going to dance Gangnam style!!
Great pics
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Found this little video
Found this little video someone posted on Youtube, very cool and very dangerous especially that far from help...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aA84VPkro4
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Doooma
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Ahh. Camp Rock.. One of my
Ahh. Camp Rock..
One of my all time favourite night fishing spots!!!
i remember when Wardie and my uncle Simmo were doing the salvage from this just after it happened.
i was only a young fella, still fishing up that way, and couldn't believe the guys diving around the wreck with monster whalers cruising around!
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I've dived there and we got
I've dived there and we got a few crays from inside the wreckage. Speared a couple of fish and hopped out before the taxmen arrived. Diving the wreck was eerie and you expected a shark to come screaming out of every hole and around every corner but I think that is a result of watching too many cartoons as a kid. Bonefish are found on the sand to the north and the caves out 50 metres or so hold plenty of cod too.
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I spearfish under the end of
I spearfish under the end of the 1 Mile Jetty and that can be quite eerie!!!
the way the light shines through the timbers creating different shadows.... Ooooooo the shadows........