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Underwater Park PropertySTATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Marine Land Management Division September 26, 1983 City of Edmonds Civic Center Edmonds, WA 98020 Q�? Lease # 10282 The 1983 legislature enacted a bill (Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 3290) extending the 6% limit on annual rental increases for aquatic leases. The rent for your current rental year under the new law has not changed, and no credit is realized from previous payments. If you have any questions, please call Robert Hoyser, Use Authorization Manager, Division of Marine Land Management at (206) 753-5324. Since ly, Joh De Meyer, Divisi n anager Ma ine Land Management ivision c: Financial Services Lease Jackets 280307 b ?i November 1, 1982 MEMO TO: Steve Simpson, Director Parks and Recreation Department FROM: Linda Sullivan, Landscape Designer Parks and Recreation Department SUBJECT: TUGBOAT PROJECT On Friday afternoon, October 29, 1982, the tugboat, "The Fossil" (formerly the Foss No. 16), was delivered to the Underwater Park as planned. Friday evening, the tugboat sank. This sinking was unplanned. Until the boat sank, the efforts of the Parks and Recreation Department and local divers had been to provide an anchoring system strong enough to keep the boat from breaking loose while it was anchored in the park. The plan was to anchor the boat in the water until about mid -December, when the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to grant a permit to sink the tug. Everyone involved in the tugboat project recognized the possibility that the boat might sink on its own. However, the fact that it had been afloat at the Diver's Institute made this possibility seem somewhat remote. What was of more concern to us was the possibility that the boat could break loose in a storm. Thus, we focused on the anchoring system. (See attached memo). The boat is now resting on the seafloor in exactly the location shown on our permit application. The application process will continue. The follow- ing is the chronology of events of October 29: Tug is delivered by Diver's Institute at 12:40 p.m., Friday, October 29, 1982. Apparently during the delivery three planks are sprung on the tug, 12" to 18" above the waterline. 2. Volunteers secure the tug with cables to one 500-pound danforth anchor and 3,000 pounds of concrete anchors. 3. Waves from northwest winds cause the bow to dip water through the damaged area. Water fills the tug rapidly. At 7:00 p.m., volunteers note the water in the bilge has increased from four inches to eighteen inches in less than two hours. TUGBOAT PROJECT November 1, 1982 - Page two 4. The tug sinks at 8:30 p.m., Friday evening,in the spot where it was planned to be placed in the Underwater Park. Divers report it is in thirty feet of water with a twenty degree port list. 5. Volunteers work during Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, to place concrete rubble in compartments in which it is unsafe for divers to go. �14 LS/mw Attachment October 27, 1982 MEMO TO: Steve Simpson, Director Parks and Recreation Department FROM: Linda Sullivan, Landscape Designer Parks and Recreation Department SUBJECT: STATUS REPORT ON UNDERWATER PARK TUGBOAT PROJECT On October 21, I met with Russ McCutchen, Operations Division, Army Corps of Engineers and delivered our application for permission to sink a tug- boat on the seafloor of the Underwater Park. After going over our materials, he said he expected there would be no problems and that a per- mit probably would be issued sometime around the lst of January. I also sent a letter the same day to Washington State Department of Natural Resources, our landlord, notifying it of our plans, and received a notice from the Edmonds Planning Department that we will be exempt from Shore- lines Management requirements for this project. The tugboat is to be delivered Friday, October 29, by John Ritter of the Diver's Institute of Technology. He is coordinating timing with Bruce Higgins, the local diver who has taken charge of mooring the boat in the Park and maintaining it until the Corps permit is granted. Bruce reported in a 10/26/82 phone conversation that seven anchorshave been set last weekend. All are 500-pound concrete piers that look as though they might have been used at one time as light pole foundations. One anchor has been set on the northeast side, and two each on the northwest, southwest, and southeast sides. The north/south anchors are spaced 40 feet apart, and the east/west anchors are spaced 135 feet apart. Bruce reiterated that the danforth anchor on the northwest corner is the most important element of the anchoring system because it is self -burying; the stronger the pull, the deeper it will go. Bruce has found 300 feet of 3/4" nylon line for the anchors on the east (stern side) end of the boat, but still needs line or cable for the western (bow side) end. The ideal line would be 3/4" steel cable in two, 140-foot lengths. Barring that, 1," nylon mooring line, 100 to 300 feet long, would be acceptable. Bruce has 2-inch steel cable, which will be acceptable for the initial mooring, but it should be replaced with something stronger. I have not been able to get a loan of cable from Diver's Institute. Do you have any ideas on where we could find some? Bruce also has begun scavenging concrete. He is telling donors to deliver it to the jetty near the park. STATUS REPORT ON UNDERWATER PARK TUGBOAT PROJECT Ocotber 27, 1982 - Pa4e two Other details: I am preparing a notice on the mooring to send to neighbor- hood homeowners and local papers, and I will be giving the Police Chief a list of the people who will routinely trespass on the boat in order to maintain it. I am also checking to see if the Street Department will loan us 4 to 6 flashing lights to put on the boat. One last matter: So far, no arrangements have been made to indicate formally - like on paper - that the tug ownership passes to us on Friday. I am not sure what would be appropriate and want to check with Mark Eames in the City Attorney's Office. LS/mw cc: Bruce Higgins Mayor Harrison Felix deMello Jim Jessel All Dept. Heads ACCREDITED SCHOOL (�QflQ►ta �ryrya�ociaiioncco` J" and ged-1eal.9agodl 64W.:*Z- lz� INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC. October 29, 1982 TO: City of Edmonds Parks & Recreation Department FROM: Divers Institute of Technology, Inc. moo] Phone (206) 783-5542 4601 Shilshole Ave. N.W. P.O. Box 70312 Seattle, Washington 98107 SUBJECT: Rights to Ownership of the Vessel, THE FOSS No. 16 Divers Institute of Technology, Inc. hereby gives to the City of Edmonds all rights of ownership to the vessel, THE FOSS No. 16. We agree that the City of Edmonds will take possession of the vessel after it has been anchor- ed in the City of Edmonds` Underwater Park on October 29, 1982. DIVERS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. . W. Manlove f President The above undersigned subscribed and sworn before me this day of 19 5-ignature of Notary P�iblicor the State of Washington My Commission expires 1-15-83 CONSULTATION, TRAINING & EQUIPMENT October 30, 1980 MEMO TO: Harve H. Harrison Mayor FROM: Jim Jessel, Director Parks and Recreation Department SUBJECT: DIVING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS At the joint meeting of October 22, the Park Board and Scuba Safety Committee addressed Councilman Naughten's recent in- quiry concerning the increase in diving accidents in the Edmonds area. The diving community basically feel that in- adequate instruction causes most fatalities and that our major diving area at the Underwater Park is relatively safe, considering that diving is�a azardous sport. The Scuba Safety Committee made the following recommendations to provide the safest diving environment in the Edmonds area: 1. Move the "hazardous diving" sign at Union Oil Beach to a more visible location. 2. Check divers' certificates and equipment to remind them of safety requirements. 3. Post a safety checklist at all popular diving areas. 4. Ask the Washington Coucil of Diving Clubs to provide continual training for all divers. We will be working with the Police Department and the Washing- ton Council of Diving Clubs to implement the recommendations. JJ/mw '