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06/12/2006: "End of the PHOENIX"
Once again, a proud member of the romantic Catalina fleet has been turned into a mud dart. Yesterday morning, the PHOENIX, a glass bottom boat that hugged the lee coast of Catalina and introduced millions to the garibaldi, sank off Malibu. Its 4-man crew was trying to move the PHOENIX from its current home in Newport Harbor to San Francisco Bay, where it was destined to become ... a cajun restaurant?
The men had called for help at about 9:50 a.m. after noticing a two-by-six-inch crack on the glass hull of the vessel, Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Ed Osorio said. Attempts to pump water out of the sinking boat had failed, he said. The men then jumped onto an inflatable raft and were picked up by lifeguards minutes later.
The good news is that no one was hurt. But the PHOENIX now joins the CATALINA, last seen rotting in Ensenada Harbor as one more monument to our inability to preserve our past.
