Florida beach fans received unlikely visitors last weekend after an unmanned ship washed.
According to the Flagler Beach Fire Department, a 50-foot shrimp boat named “Miss Monty” ran at Beverly Beach, about three miles north of Flagler Beach on Florida’s east coast.
Authorities responding to the beach boat site were initially unable to contact the crew; The department said In a social media post.
The Flagler Beach Fire Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Fox News Digital.
When contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, officials learned that the crew had in fact been removed from the ship and taken from the ship prior to Sunday. He told the Daytona Beach News Journal.
“We make sure everything looks like the buttons are clogged. The container is still upright. It’s not capsized,” Blackwell said.
“It’s a steel hull so it shouldn’t fall apart overnight, or anything like that crazy should fall apart.”
The ship lost Miss Monty captain Corey Thomas on Friday night. He told the News Journal.
Thomas reportedly called the Coast Guard after he realized that his spare anchor would not hold the weight of the ship.
“I didn’t want the boat to drift away,” Thomas said. ”
[Coast Guard] They told me they couldn’t tow me. And I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t tow me. They said it was too dangerous. ”
Thomas was not immediately available to request comment on Fox News Digital.
The Coast Guard reportedly took Thomas and his crew to the shore, where Thomas found the boat owner who was willing to tow a shrimp boat.
But Miss Monty drifts eight miles in three hours, and the waves are too rough for a ship to tow, the News Journal reported.
Thomas attempted to use the second anchor to hold the boat, but the line broke. The next day, Miss Monty arrived at the coast of Beverly Beach.
“And she’s sitting here,” Thomas said.
The boat was searched and then handed over to local law enforcement. Thomas reportedly hired a larger shrimp boat to get off the beach and told Fox News Digital that he was being towed by St. Augustine.
The Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
