August
19, 1963 – Imagine this one happening today!
Coast Guard officials detain five men and a woman aboard a 75-foot boat
after the leaking boat is stopped at the Chicago lock because it has no safety
equipment and is judged to be unseaworthy.
After removing the crew from the boat, officials discover 500 pounds of
dynamite on the top deck and remove the leaking vessel to a point 1,000 feet
offshore. Miss Kiiri Tamm, 21, one of
the crew members tells officials that the group planned to use the dynamite to
blow up a sunken barge off Eighty-Third Street in an effort to salvage the
metal, which they hoped to sell in order to start a salvage firm of their
own. The bomb squad removes the
explosives and the boat is returned to its berth at Goose Island.
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