{"id":9771,"date":"2021-10-11T04:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2021-10-11T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T08:37:09","slug":"grounded-fishing-boat-still-lingering-at-island-beach-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2021\/10\/grounded-fishing-boat-still-lingering-at-island-beach-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounded Fishing Boat Still Lingering at Island Beach State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-kSaRoilX-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/kSaRoilX?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A fishing boat that became grounded in the breakers at Island Beach State Park early Saturday is still stuck on a sandbar after efforts to tow it to deeper water were not successful.<\/p>\n<p>The fishing vessel <em>Bear<\/em>, a 68-foot boat built in 1984, according to a federal registration database, remained in the surf zone and led to the closure of an area of the park to vehicles and anglers Sunday. State officials closed Area 23 of the park due to concerns over high tides and strong winds Sunday into Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9773\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"A commercial fishing vessel, Bear, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9773\" class=\"wp-image-9773 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"A commercial fishing vessel, Bear, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commercial fishing vessel, <em>Bear<\/em>, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\">If the boat shifts position, it may create safety and access issues if the boat turns perpendicular to shore,&#8221; an announcement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The grounding of the <em>Bear<\/em>, a scallop boat that weighs 72 tons and draws 8-feet of water, elicited a response from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Seaside Park and Seaside Heights fire companies, plus TowBoatUS crews from the local area as well as Atlantic City, where a more powerful vessel was launched to unground the <em>Bear<\/em>. Those efforts, thus far, have failed. There was no indication as to how much fuel remained on board or if it was at risk of leaking, however a spokesperson for Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light said the agency confirmed that there were no immediate safety hazards and the boat&#8217;s crew escaped uninjured.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9774\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"A commercial fishing vessel, Bear, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9774\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9774\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A commercial fishing vessel, Bear, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245047302_397337998432840_5314506051239511281_n.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commercial fishing vessel, Bear, grounded at Island Beach State Park, Oct. 10, 2021. (Credit: Seaside Park Fire Dept.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Tumolo, Seaside Park Fire Chief, said the exact reason the boat ran aground is not yet known, however the crew members did spend the night on the beach as they waited for the vessel to be ungrounded. The tide went out before the tow boat could free the Bear, however, and the vessel settled into the sand where it has remained ever since.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2021\/10\/grounded-fishing-boat-still-lingering-at-island-beach-state-park\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fishing boat that became grounded in the breakers at Island Beach State Park early Saturday is still stuck on a sandbar after efforts to tow it to deeper water were not successful. The fishing vessel Bear, a 68-foot boat built in 1984, according to a federal registration database, remained in the surf zone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1982,1981,1959,1979,47,1980],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-1982","tag-bear","tag-featured","tag-grounded-vessel","tag-island-beach-state-park","tag-scallop-boat","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244855880_397178488448791_967460678359671354_n-e1633941319876.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-2xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}