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HIDDEN JEKYLL EPISODE SIX: The Sunken Shrimper

In 1996, the MV Mary Anne, a 60-foot shrimping boat, grounded on the beach at the South end of Jekyll Island during high tide. According to local lore, the boat remained stuck, as as the tide went out, she heeled over on her Starboard side. When the tide came in, water rushed into the boat, and it started to wallow in the sand, sinking lower and lower. Today, all that can be seen of the boat is the very top of her mast. She sank into the sands fairly quickly, and in the last ten years, all that has been visible are the upper mast parts, which have rusted off, one by one. Today, only the central mast and one cable remains protruding from the sand. In less than 20 years, the sands of Jekyll Island have reclaimed almost all of the MV Mary Anne. Update: From the Jekyll Island BEACHSCAPE Magazine: The remains of a shrimp boat that sank in 1995 stands like a sculpture in the beach at the southern tip of Jekyll Island - but it is not a sculpture at all, at least not an intended one. Winter guest McCurdy (Mack) Lipsey of Nashville, TN found this sculpture captivating during his many walks on the southern end of Jekyll Island. He, like many of us, have heard old wives tales of how this became the final resting place for a shrimp boat. But Mack could not let these many fables continue and so he investigated the origin of this forgotten relic turned sculpture. His inquiries led to the identification of the boat owner's daughter, Sabrina "Breeze" Breese, a waitress at Sea Jay's Restaurant. Sabrina told Mr. Lipsey that her father, Daniel "Cool Breeze" Breese had owned the boat, The Mary Ann, and that he had been aboard the shrimp boat the night she sank in 1995. Finding Daniel safe and sound in Waynesville, Mack invited him back to Jekyll Island to be reunited with The Mary Ann. Accompanied by his son Blue, Daniel and Mack visited the mysterious sculpture. Father and son looked at and touched the rusting mast and explained how things had been. The night The Mary Ann sank, Daniel and Whitney Purvis, owner of Captain Sam, anchored their boats bow to bow just off the beach at the south end of Jekyll Island. When the tide went out during the night The Mary Ann became grounded and began to list badly. As the tide came in the next morning, Daniel's boat became flooded and sank. It has been sixteen years since that sorrowful event and he is glad someone cares about what happened. Daniel and his shrimp boat came full circle that day on the beach and things were put in perspective. Now his shrimp boat rests on Jekyll Island as a sculpture for all to enjoy.