Fiesta Cruiser is off the beach

Just heard from a friend that the Fiesta Cruiser is officially off the beach... it is in the entrance to the port over near the old docks that were built during Al capones days down here... I will see if I can get down there for photos later today...

Should have made it a reef

Yeah... that would be nice... But I could just see all of those OPC guys trying to sell you a Ticket to Dive The Fiesta...

Wow, we just saw it on Tuesday and took lots of photos. Just made it in time!

A few pics of the Fiesta Cruiser in it's current resting place.....would anybody in their right mind get on that bucket for a sunset cruise ever again? Put that bucket out of it's misery, tow it out to sea and make it a dive reef!!!

I was down there the other day and there was a guy onboard messing with a pump... the boat was mostly out of the water like in the photos above but that pump was spewing water like a fire hydrant...

And why does Sherman need to leave it sitting there looking like a SCAB on the entrance to the port..? I'm sure he made enough money off of that bucket of rust to put it in drydock at one of the shipyards... maybe he's affraid they would start to cut it up for scrap...

SINK IT or SCRAP IT... but don't leave that wreck to rust away in the entrance to the port... there is a tall rusty product of greed that blemishes that lanscape already...

Mark...you can't see it in the shot, but on #3 there was a continual stream of water coming out of the bottom of the hull towards the stern, when I took the shot.

That's a wonderful "sight" for any tourists that park in the free parking lot at the malecon!!

What's funny is our local gangbanging spray paint artists TAGGED that wreck just above the blue barrels that are welded to the hull (photo #3)... I wonder are those barrels and other objects welded on as extra boyancy devices to keep this skow from going under and into the abyss..?

What a joke....

Seadweller said:

What's funny is our local gangbanging spray paint artists TAGGED that wreck just above the blue barrels that are welded to the hull (photo #3)... I wonder are those barrels and other objects welded on as extra boyancy devices to keep this skow from going under and into the abyss..?

What a joke....

Mark,he is seriously talking about putting back in the water as a tourist boat.

I wouldn't get on that bucket of rust without my own life jacket!!! And I know how to swim!

Look at the openings towards the bow....have to be very close to the water line....some rough water....and water just floods in!!

lagrimas85 said:

Mark,he is seriously talking about putting back in the water as a tourist boat.

If he did get the Port captain to let him put it back into service that would be a legitimate reason for the media in the states to say it's not safe in Rocky Point...

Look at all the barrels and other "supports"/stuff sticking out of the hull that are welded on!

What a mess.........

Tourists beware!

rockyptjoe said:

Look at all the barrels and other "supports"/stuff sticking out of the hull that are welded on!

What a mess.........

Tourists beware!

Joe, whats wrong with welding barrel's on the side of your boat, maybe the swim platform on the back of the boat next to the slide won't go a couple feet underwater anymore, when he overloads the boat with tourist's.

I don't think they would help much with the drag, but maybe the barrels are there to help it get up into plane when he opens up those throttles...

Those are the new and improved stabilizer tanks welded on. Not 55 gallon oil drums. LOL

Purge those tanks....dive ..dive...dive!!!

lagrimas85 said:

Joe, whats wrong with welding barrel's on the side of your boat, maybe the swim platform on the back of the boat next to the slide won't go a couple feet underwater anymore, when he overloads the boat with tourist's.

Or it won't capsize when he puts all those people on the top deck.....he never goes fast enough to worry about drag from all those barrels!!!

lagrimas85 said:

Mark,he is seriously talking about putting back in the water as a tourist boat.

Hey now I get it... maybe he came to his senses and when he said put it back in the water, he meant underwater like about 60 feet so it can be a wreck dive type of a tourist boat...

I still have this horrible vission of all of Shermans OPC's molesting vehicles as they drive into Old Port and they're all shouting "Hey Meestir, chew wanna buy a teeket to dive de Fiesta Cruiser"

Just saw these photos on FB...thanks to Stasha Noon and Plinio Rivero. Looks like last night's winds caused it to break loose...and now it looks like it's in the middle of the channel leading into the harbor!!!

The first(up against the breakwater) is further out from where it was about a month ago.....the last shot is the most recent (Fiesta 1.jpg)

Sheesh...when will this end?

Take it out 5 miles and sink it in 50 feet of water and lets dive it....This will bring divers from souther california and southwest to dive warm water in the summer time.

Just got a call from my amigo Adolfo and he said it has almost sunk completely and it is blocking the chanel into port and the Intrepid also came loose from its moorings and damaged the municipal docks and ended up crashing into some shrimp boats... were headed down to old port and the Boo Bar to meet friends will definately check this out....

Hey Chew want a go for a ride on da Fiesta Cruisesr..?

Maybe this will provide enough motivation to get a permanent solution.

It's sort of "The Walking Dead" of the boat world......

jerry said:

It's sort of "The Walking Dead" of the boat world......

Thats funny we said it was like the Black Pearl never can get rid of it.

More photos... Sunk Again...

Mark...it looks like the waves have pushed it somewhat out of the harbor entrance area...and back towards the beach where it was aground for months....

Mark you are the dive guy down south I can get the people and you get the permission lets strip off the bad stuff and sink this P.O.S. so we have somthing cool to dive on... IR YOU SINK IT THEY WILL COME...

Don't wait for the book.... Watch the video...

Saw it at low tide. Looked like it was right in the center of the entrance in the deep water

wow.... just wow.

when is the next -30 tide so they can weld more barrels onto it ?

Or maybe they can get the "Mythbuster" guys to fill it with ping pong balls.

Maybe fill it with Jumping Castles...another business plan that didn't work for suburbanites looking for cash after the multilevel Vitamin scam crashed and burnt up

moore_rb said:

wow.... just wow.

when is the next -30 tide so they can weld more barrels onto it ?

Or maybe they can get the "Mythbuster" guys to fill it with ping pong balls.

another reminder that some agencies still struggle to make the 'common sense' resolution from the beginning.

How do you remove something like that. It must be full of sand by now

Oh Come On Sea. Lets be positive about this. I thik he's working out the kinks to develop it as a submersible cruiser. You know the glass bottom cruiser. Or maybe a modern day terror water park ride. You remember the giant rollin barrels in the fun house ? Load it up with drunk Srping breakers and let the waves mash them around, all the tequila you can drink of course.

Seadweller said:

Don't wait for the book.... Watch the video...

Just saw the report of the earthquake in Mexico...maybe we'll have a tsunami push the fiesta Cruiser up on dry land...then the owner can convert it to condos?? :stir:

rockyptjoe said:

Just saw the report of the earthquake in Mexico...maybe we'll have a tsunami push the fiesta Cruiser up on dry land...then the owner can convert it to condos?? :stir:

You may be moving in it if you want to avoid being killed by that cancer causing steel death trap you hole up in "

With the price of petrol, I am hoping a grouper or two holes up in this catastrophe.

Kelney said:

With the price of petrol, I am hoping a grouper or two holes up in this catastrophe.

I'm thinking the same thing, but we're going to have to think of a way to keep Mike Nelson from spear fishing around it.

Duck, Kenny duck!!

Update. Fiesta Cruiser still sits on the bottom still in the same location.

Sheesh...aren't there any laws to require the owner to do something about that hazard to navigation?

They do have the Mexico Coast Guard in the Harbor.

It did make money!

Full That Day!

All the friends that i took down this weekend were asking about the boat in the harbor - in the car on the way to the Malecon, one of them yelled out "oh my God, the boat is sinking" - i had to explain what had happened - i still don't get how they can let that thing sit right in the middle of the entrance to the harbor. It would seem that it should be a priority to get that thing out of there. It's amazing that's it's been 2 months and that ghost ship is continuing to haunt the harbor.

It's gotta be GREAT for business on the other margarita cruise ships! "Oh, no señor, that would nevvvver happen on one of our cruises..."

All I can do is Lawlawlawlawlawl at this lawligator of a situation. My buddy is asking me the same questions this weekend and all that I can do is tell him, "Johnny, its Mexico...". What else do you tell someone, that they're working on it?! lol This is the same place that's going to have cruise ships right????? Im just asking, pretty funny though... put a couple hundred, maybe thousand people to work in the city and start to clean the place up, its starting to look like a dump. All I see is rust and graffiti everywhere...

Mexico Joe said:

All I can do is Lawlawlawlawlawl at this lawligator of a situation. My buddy is asking me the same questions this weekend and all that I can do is tell him, "Johnny, its Mexico...". What else do you tell someone, that they're working on it?! lol This is the same place that's going to have cruise ships right????? Im just asking, pretty funny though... put a couple hundred, maybe thousand people to work in the city and start to clean the place up, its starting to look like a dump. All I see is rust and graffiti everywhere...

Hahaha, no kidding! Very ironic that rumors to the effect of "work is starting, etc." on the cruise ship dock further down the line on sandy beach and that pile of cr@p just sits out in the middle of the harbor for weeks on end. Wonder what investors of those multimillion-dollar companies would think about this situation.

I'm just waiting for the rusting hulk known as "The Yacht Club" to topple over into the marina. That thing is looking crooked now - Seems they could make a fortune in just scrap if they gave it to someone to tear down.

Senor Pescado said:

I'm just waiting for the rusting hulk known as "The Yacht Club" to topple over into the marina. That thing is looking crooked now - Seems they could make a fortune in just scrap if they gave it to someone to tear down.

The same is true for a lot of shiiiiiiiittttt around RP. What about the Marriott fail???? Its just rebarb and rust over there next to where the cruise ships would be coming in. Basically everywhere you look there is rusted chain link fencing that is falling apart due to rust and neglect. I love RP, but the town is starting to look like a dump, rust everywhere and on everything...

You are right about the rebar, etc. However, on the plus side we've noticed quite a bit of painting going on around town. Some new paved roads and even stripping on some of the roads! The Mayor has had a major trash pick-up program going on. The Malecon looks beautiful and every time we've been there has been very clean. Also the vendors were very nice and backed off immediately if told we weren't interested. Made it a very pleasant shopping experience. Also noticed that all the fish markets seems much cleaner.

I've heard rumors (I do love those rumors) that things are actively trying to be accomplished about some of the unfinished projects. I do know that the Mayor is very involved in making Penasco one of the best vacation destinations. We do have a lot going for us.

I agree there is a lot of activity with new building and repairs. But some of these large unfinished projects should be torn down - especially the yacht club - i don't remember where i read it, but i recall reading that engineers have looked at the project and said it can't be finished now because it wasn't built level. If that's the case - tear it down. I'm sure they can sell it to a salvager. Speaking of closed businesses - is the Pointe on the Maelecon closed? It seemed to be when we were down this weekend.

Fiesta Update...

It's still there, but slowly Piece by Piece it's going away...

During peak high tide you can't see it. Not too good if you don't know it's there

garyd said:

During peak high tide you can't see it. Not too good if you don't know it's there

How true... they should have Sherman the owner sit above it on an inner tube with a flashing light warning folks that it's there...

Mark...are they slowly taking it apart....or is the tidal/wave action doing the damage? (Maybe a shrimp boat clipped the top sections???)

Joe they are actually taking it apart... in the photos you can see some workers on the Fiesta dismantling it...

Just an UPDATE... it's still there but ever so slowly disappearing as it's being dismantled by Thugs... photo taken during low tide Saturday morning Cinco de Mayo...



photo courtesy of Jan Pavletich Thanks Jan...

Wow!! The low tide has certainly matched the high.

In that photo that rock that you can see behind the pick-ups has a very deep hole in front of it... when I was shooting some underwater night time video I was right there... when I dove down I found a sea star (formerly known as star fish) and there were shrimp all over down there...

But when I said deep I meant deeper than I could see with my kryptonite underwater light... I dove down and shined my light toward the bottom and I couldn't sea bottom out from that rock I was shooting video of... then shined my light toward the surface and couldn't sea the surface... since I was by myself and free diving I thought I should surface and get to where my feet could touch bottom.... I really didn't want to get to the bottom to find maybe a net or old anchor line to get tangled in.... but it was cool.... here's the vid if you want to sea..?

Seadweller said:

In that photo that rock that you can see behind the pick-ups has a very deep hole in front of it... when I was shooting some underwater night time video I was right there... when I dove down I found a sea star (formerly known as star fish) and there were shrimp all over down there...

But when I said deep I meant deeper than I could see with my kryptonite underwater light... I dove down and shined my light toward the bottom and I couldn't sea bottom out from that rock I was shooting video of... then shined my light toward the surface and couldn't sea the surface... since I was by myself and free diving I thought I should surface and get to where my feet could touch bottom.... I really didn't want to get to the bottom to find maybe a net or old anchor line to get tangled in.... but it was cool.... here's the vid if you want to sea..?

Why don't you show us your mussels, Boy?

lagrimas85 said:

Why don't you show us your mussels, Boy?

I left them on the reef... señor