The shipwrecked fishing vessel that has sat on the rocks north of Dillon Beach since March 6 will be refloated and demolished later this summer, a coalition of agencies announced last week. The plan, which utilizes funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, consists of strategically filling interior spaces in the 90-foot American Challenger with expanding foam to create buoyancy, then pulling the vessel by tugboat. Crews have already patched the steel hull and installed cameras…
American Challenger to be refloated and removed