The love boat won't be sailing again anytime soon.
The 70-year-old MS Aurora, the inspiration for the iconic TV show, has been sinking for months, raising concerns about local drinking water in the sunken Northern California estuary and leaving local officials wondering what to do next. I'm going back and forth. , According to the Los Angeles Times.
“It's heartbreaking,” cruise ship historian Peter Nego told the magazine.
Cruise director and fashion model in the late 1960s when the Aurora operated as a cruise ship. geraldine sanderswrote a memoir called “Love Boats,'' filled with juicy stories that happened on board.
“I can't imagine what happens on a cruise ship,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1972. . The world revolves around love. ”
Producer Aaron Spelling based his popular romantic comedy-drama series The Love Boat, which aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986, on this book.
Cunego and his colleagues said the actual cause of the boat's sinking was unknown and argued that its demise was shrouded in “diabolical and dark events.”
“It's all very strange,” Cunego said of the aurora, which appeared in the 1963 James Bond film “From Russia with Love.”
It sank in May less than a mile from Stockton's drinking water source. Leachate oil and other waste from sunken ships poses a threat to residents.
Already in financial trouble, the city has to shell out money to keep the Aurora afloat, oblivious to its storied and colorful history.
“There's no love here,” Connie Cochran, Stockton's community relations director, lamented to the Los Angeles Times this week.
The storied ship was named German Liner in 1955 and then operated as a cruise ship in the Aegean Sea before finally relocating to the West Coast.
Eventually, the ship was taken over by homeless people and drug users.
Software developer Chris Wilson bought Aurora on Craigslist, created a video on YouTube about its history, and gave Aurora another chance. facebook The purpose is to raise funds to repair it.
But Wilson sold it last fall. Wilson said the new owner, who has not been made public, failed to file paperwork with the California Department of Transportation and is missing.
A San Joaquin County representative told the LA Times that their top priority was not determining who owned the Aurora, but how to dispose of it safely.
