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[*] posted on 9-3-2022 at 03:13 PM


Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner  
This thread sank faster than the yacht.


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[*] posted on 9-3-2022 at 03:48 PM


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If anyone has real news on the sinking let us know


it sank as it was being towed away, it sank in deeper water away from balandra bay. Not much else to know!





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[*] posted on 9-3-2022 at 04:20 PM


Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner  


If anyone has real news on the sinking let us know


it sank as it was being towed away, it sank in deeper water away from balandra bay. Not much else to know!



I wonder how deep it is. There might be some easy pickings for SCUBA divers.




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[*] posted on 9-4-2022 at 12:54 AM


https://peninsulardigital.com/2022/08/21/consumen-las-llamas...

https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2022/08/cerrada-al-publ...

https://www.sopitas.com/noticias/combustible-playa-balandra-...

https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2022/08/29/estados/inician-...

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[*] posted on 10-10-2022 at 07:53 PM


:o Impunidad en Caso Balandra :o

https://zetatijuana.com/2022/09/impunidad-en-caso-balandra/




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[*] posted on 10-11-2022 at 08:03 PM


It went down like a lead balloon?



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[*] posted on 10-12-2022 at 10:58 AM


interesting that the salvage company "lost" the wreck just outside the protected Balandra reserve in very deep waters. Plan is, to leave her there.
Owner of the yacht is a powerful businessman/politician in Mexico. Some dech hand will go to jail for 10 years and all will be fine.




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[*] posted on 10-12-2022 at 11:04 AM


reason behind this boat disaster is the regulation that only a small number of cars and their passengers can visit Balandra every day (too much fecal matter in the water). They way out, if you had to visit Balandra, was to hire a panga to ship you there. Lotsa road signs "Balandra boat taxi here". No restrictions on the number boats (someone in the government "forgot" that possibility)

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[*] posted on 10-12-2022 at 11:13 AM


one of the papers above states that the maximum boat size in the Balandra protected zone is 12 meters.
I pulled up some recent Google Earth images.
About half the boats are way past 12 meters in length.

every single boat in the image below is larger than 12 meters
the largest one in the center is 20 meters

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