With thousands of people thronging marina to enjoy their Pongal holidays, a need to unearth the wreckage of a ship that sank here three decades ago has come into focus again.
While the unearthed wreckage had been a deathtrap on the sea shore and a large crowd gathered on the marina even on Mattupongal day, the City Police and the Chennai Corporation gave warnings against bathing and swimming in the sea on the Kanumpongal day.
While the danger zone, behind the Labour statue, usually be barrigaded and the authorities put up a sign board giving warning to the people, many fishermen feel that preventive measures on that particular place is inadequate to prevent the people from entering the water in the `danger zone' as the wreckage could not be seen from the shore.
The issue had already gone to the High Court also. S Kumarasamy, an advocate and CPI (ML) leader had filed a petition in the Madras High Court a few years ago when a middle aged man from Salem drowned after he got struck in the danger zone.
While the unearthed wreckage had been a deathtrap on the sea shore and a large crowd gathered on the marina even on Mattupongal day, the City Police and the Chennai Corporation gave warnings against bathing and swimming in the sea on the Kanumpongal day.
While the danger zone, behind the Labour statue, usually be barrigaded and the authorities put up a sign board giving warning to the people, many fishermen feel that preventive measures on that particular place is inadequate to prevent the people from entering the water in the `danger zone' as the wreckage could not be seen from the shore.
The issue had already gone to the High Court also. S Kumarasamy, an advocate and CPI (ML) leader had filed a petition in the Madras High Court a few years ago when a middle aged man from Salem drowned after he got struck in the danger zone.
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