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When we first found this anchor chain in only 25 feet of water, we were very excited and felt it would lead us to the missing “deep anchor” at it’s end. But alas, the mystery lasted for a few more days. This is the chain section that snapped off the deep anchor that was protecting “Seeadler” from a west wind. The swell height and force of the wind with the Seeadler’s cumbersome characteristics and weight allowed this chain to simply snap causing her to drift up on the western side of Mopelia Atoll.
Mopelia Atoll, Society Islands – French Polynesia
June 10, 2010