The Ex-HMAS Adelaide dive site is proving so popular, Central Coast Tourism has been forced to advance bookings to January next year.
It’s hoped the diving experience will soon attract an international market, and provide a much needed boost to the local economy.
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Codswallop.
This dive site has been closed 50 per cent of the time due to large waves. That’s probably why the bookings have gone to January. The income is miniscule compared to CC Tourism’s Ollie Philpot’s projected $4.5 million per year.
Much need money to the Coast? Most of the money goes to dive shop operators, instructors and underwater photographers.
It cost the Government nearly $10 million to sink it. Now the toxic mess will fall apart, and in years to come, cost even more to clean up.
Gosford Council is currently trying to borrow $10 million to update Gosford CBD.
How ridiculous the same amount was wasted on this lemon.
Anyone with half a brain can see this is a major financial fizzer.
The amount the government actually receives will be lucky to cover the public liability insurance for the site, leaving nothing to pay for the carnage the ship will create in the near future as it starts to break up and pollute the surrounding area.
This is already causing problems between existing fishing business and divers.
Terrigal Haven is simply not viable to cope with the two industries without a wharf of some kind.
The idea of sinking the Adelaide and then worrying about the details is typical of governance these days. Foresight seems not to exist.
This ship was sunk just too close to a surf beach and in a whale migration path.
How are the dive boats getting away with being so close to migrating whales.
When the mothers and calves turn up they won’t be able to go out at all according to existing laws.
I agree with Mr Burton. Gosford CBD could have been designed to have a marina with markets keeping the whole waterfront opened similar to Navy wharf in Chicago.
High rise could then have been built in Mann St to turn Gosford into a real city.
As it is the existing buildings will lose views. 10 million dollars could have been used to inspire the developers. Gosford could have become a popular tourist venue for day trippers from Sydney.
All we have now is a great big problem waiting for the future to happen.
When all the asbestos starts washing up on our beaches it will cost lives.
I believe it is very difficult to get insurance when asbestos is involved and all warships have it in most of their structures.
Judging by the little diving action we’ve observed so far, I doubt that this will make anywhere near the projected figures. The details weren’t worked out beforehand, and it seems the diving fraternity have been sold a pup.
I still don’t understand how this ship, quite probably still unclean, could have been dumped without any consultation with local residents.
Since the scuttling on April 13, there has been minimal access to the ship from rough seas. Immediately it is becoming an economic lemon as forecast by the NSAG. The media spin to say it will attract divers from all over the world is laughable. It is not a world class dive site and will never be. Terrigal does not have the infastructure or pull to make it a draw card to come here. It will never recoup what it cost to sink her. Millions of dollars or divers will never be flowing into the Central Coast because of her. It will not become a breeding ground for fish species. Any fish feeding on what may grow there will be full of Persistant Organic Pollutants from the pcbs never tested, and pass it along the food chain. Whales will now stop coming into the Bay at Avoca as they have done for thousands of years… until she starts breaking up in the next couple of years or sooner – and then what? Sorry for the doom and gloom but this is a perfect example of an exercise in greed without proper thinking, planning, care for the Environment, or the community. An absolute fiasco that could have been averted by a government and individuals who know what they are doing! We all need to think ahead, not backwards!!