A shipwreck The ship is still on its side after tipping over off the Scottish coast, and it's still decaying 50 years later.
On January 27, 1974, the MV Captayannis sank due to sudden 60mph winds causing waves to flood the pump room and tip the ship over.
The rusty wreck is on a sandbank in the Firth of Clyde near Glasgow, ScotlandIt's a tourist attraction now, but people wonder why it's still there after 50 years.
The legal dispute between the ship's owners and insurers has kept the wreck in place, and plans to destroy it never happened.
The MV Captayannis, a Greek ship, had come to the Firth of Clyde to unload raw sugar for the Tate & Lyle factory in Greenock – so it's now known as the ‘sugar ship’.
The pump rooms were flooded by the sudden gales before captain Theodorakis Ionnis could tell his crew to restart the engines.
The ship's anchor dragged and it drifted into the anchor chains of a BP tanker, British Light, tearing a hole in the hull below the waterline.
Luckily, all 30 crew members were rescued unhurt, and in the past 50 years, the wreckage has been a popular spot for divers and kayakers.
Former Provost Billy Petrie said he's always been puzzled as to why the wreck was never removed.
He told The Sun: ‘I remember discussions about it in the council at the time and we got in touch with the Clyde Navigation Trust, who said it wasn’t a navigational hazard.
‘I think the main issue with the removal was that no one would accept responsibility for it – between the owners and the insurers.
‘If it had been in the English Channel or something, it would never have been allowed to stay there.
‘The Waverley and small ferries used go on a detour to go and see it.
‘It was a big point of conversation in the town at the time. I went round it myself a few times in a small boat, and it really was quite a hulk. It was some size.
‘It felt a bit like being in Robinson Crusoe or something – it was such a big area, like an island.
‘You used to see boys sat on top of it fishing – whether they caught anything or not I don’t know.
‘The sugar load was never seen again – just like when you put sugar in your tea, it just dissolved in the water.’
People have looted the sugar ship extensively since it sank, so now only the steel hull and superstructure remain.
However, the MV Captayannis’s deck is surprisingly still in quite good condition.
The shipwreck has also turned into a safe place for wildlife, with fish gathering around the sunken ship and sea birds building their homes in its empty storage areas.
This, the BBC reports, this means that anyone who comes near the wreck is overwhelmed by the smell of bird droppings.
Additionally, previous plans to detonate the sunken ship were canceled because it is close to the Ardmore Point bird sanctuary.
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