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Ship for sale, Buyer Must Rescue it From Bottom of the Sea

Roberts says that boat comes with fishing gear worth $2,000 and $800 in cash.

Owner of a 16-foot fishing boat is selling his boat on advertising site Craiglist. This is nothing special except that the buyer must rescue it from the bottom of the seabed in Gulf of Mexico.

Afther boat capsized two miles from the shore boat owner Jack Roberts put the boat on sale to avoid $2,400 salvage fee.
Roberts says that boat comes with fishing gear worth $2,000 and $800 in cash.

This advertisement has received great interest and now the coast guard is searchin for exact location of the ship.
The 16-foot Sportsman fishing boat was never named and his friends told him that this is bad luck. Now the ship carries the name – Sorry Boat.

“That boat’s been nothing but trouble since I’ve had it,” says the Fort Walton Beach man.
Roberts, his two adult sons and a Chihuahua named BooBoo were rescued by another boat after the Sunday afternoon capsizing.

The boat remains unsold, and still at the bottom of the sea.