Abandoned boats are a real problem in Connecticut, ... “Typically, the abandoned boats we get are old wooden ones, people get too deep and just abandon it,” Wadsworth said.

Material used in fiberglass boats has a limited lifespan. Some owners ditch their boats in public waters, causing an environmental hazard. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Jan. 1, 2023.) ...

EVERETT — Six old and abandoned boats in Everett are nearing their final days in local waters. Snohomish County’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has placed legal notices on ...

A new Pennsylvania law aims to make it easier for law enforcement to remove abandoned and derelict boats sitting on the side of the road and sinking in rivers and lakes.

Abandoned boats are found in every coastal state and in lakes and rivers. Nancy Wallace with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there's no market for recycled fiberglass.

But long-abandoned boats are piling up: By 2025, Alaska’s fleet will include more than 3,000 vessels between 28 and 59 feet long that are over 45 years old — past the point of a useful life ...

In Horry County alone, there are at least 20 abandoned boats scattered around different waterways that are in various stages of DNR’s abandoned boat removal process, DNR officer Joel Chanca said.

The boats can be seen in old movies or paintings, but need to come out of the water. "They kind of thought it was romantic to see an old boat just laying up on a beach," saidRudy Socha, the CEO of ...

The founder of this fledgling nonprofit, Rudy Socha of Mount Pleasant, tells us it has removed more than 100 abandoned boats, often with in-kind donations from salvage companies.

I f you noticed a helicopter flying low over Budd Inlet with an old boat hanging off the bottom on Tuesday, ... abandoned boats from regional waterways and remove them to a holding area in Olympia.