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MAR MENOR HARBOURS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR BUSINESS!
Staff Reporter / 2010-03-06 11:48:15
More than 2,500 yachts which are moored in the eleven ports of the Mar Menor became isolated last Monday, when the only Access point into the Mediterranean, the lifting bridge, broke down.
The lack of agreement between those responsible for the bridge meant that the situation has remained unchanged over the following days. The problem has also affected the hundreds of other boats which are moored illegally on the Mar Menor and those vessels which wished to enter the natural salt lagoon.
The only ones who could go out onto the Mediterranean were those without a mast. The director of the Tomás Maestre port has compared the situation to when you leave your car in a hotel car park and when your holiday is over you are unable to take your car home.
He added that the fact that the channel is closed is a big security risk. If boat started sinking and made its way to the Mar Menor for reparations it would find its route blocked.
Up until the 1st March the bridge was opening every two hours for 15 minutes, between 8am and 10pm.
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