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July 1, 2016
Jet boat runs aground at Cheltenham A group of tourists made an unexpected landing in Devonport last Friday when a jet boat grounded on Cheltenham Beach. Devonport local Bruce Rickard says he watched the boat scoot around and then get stuck on the sand as the tide was going out. Julie Kerry, who was visiting North Head from St Mary’s Bay, said the 20 or so tourists on the Auckland Jet Boat had waited for about an hour for the tide to recede, then walked across the beach to a bus that had been called to pick them up. Bob McCutcheon, who lives on Cheltenham Beach, says he was not surprised the accident happened. “The boats come here almost every day to do circles on the water and always come too close in, sometimes halfway between the tide mark and the beach. We have complained a couple of times about them in the past, once in the summer when people were swimming out where they were,” he says. The skipper of the jet boat did not want to Going with the flow... tourists have an unexpected stopover in Devonport comment on the accident.
Navy pool closed after landslide The Navy swimming pool has been closed following a landslide. As well as the Navy, Devonport Swim Club also uses the pool. Club members found several large pieces of concrete in and around the pool when they went to train
there last Thursday morning. A Navy spokesman said the landslide was above the northern end of the pool, and likely to have been caused by the heavy downpour the night before. “The Fleet Swimming Pool at the Devonport
Naval Base is closed temporarily because of a landslide on the northern embankment, due to the heavy rain on Wednesday night, causing rocks and debris to fall into the pool,” the spokesman said. “The full extent of the damage has not yet been determined.”
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