County hires salvage firm to remove Deep Thought from Lake Michigan shoreline next week
The boat plot thickens.
After numerous attempts to rescue Deep Thought, the Chris-Craft Roamer that has been marooned in the Lake Michigan shoreline since Oct. 13, Jerry Guyer has been told his services are no longer needed.
"I haven't given up," Guyer, the owner of Silo Marina told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "The county told me to stop."
According to Milwaukee County Supervisor Shelton Wasserman, the county signed a $55,000 contract with a Milwaukee-based company to remove the boat from where it is lodged 4 to 5 feet in the sandy shoreline of Lake Michigan between McKinley Marina and Bradford Beach.
Weather permitting, the removal will happen May 6. Wasserman said the company has prior experience working with the county and picking up overturned semis on the highways. The name of the company has not yet been made public.
Wasserman said the company will be bringing in equipment to pick the boat up and over the large boulders that form a barrier between the sandy beach and the beach's parking lot.
Guyer's crew had been attempting to remove the boat by removing water and pulling it out of the sand, hoping to loosen it up and then pull it back into the water. Guyer's last attempt to remove Deep Thought was April 28. A pontoon he and his crew were using ended up getting broken and washing ashore in the process.
Wasserman said the county will be paying for the boat's removal but hopes the county can be reimbursed for its efforts. The boat is on county property and its owners, Sherry and Richard Wells, left it after they ran out of gas. The Mississippi couple has expressed an inability to pay for its removal.
To date, two donors have made donations to reimburse whomever removes the boat. This is another reason Guyer is concerned.
Guyer did not have a contract with the city of Milwaukee, said Jeff Fleming, the Milwaukee mayor's spokesman, but he was put in contact with an anonymous donor. Guyer said he has spent $27,000 on salvage efforts. Now Guyer is worried he might not be reimbursed for his attempts, period.
"The parks department does feel this new company is capable of removing it, and doing it in an environmentally safe way," Wasserman said.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee County to remove Deep Thought from Lake Michigan May 6
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