Theodore Too, the duplicate tugboat named after a years-long TV sequence, has been refloated in St. Catharines, Ont., after partially sinking this week, in keeping with the boat’s proprietor.
Theodore Too “was safely righted and refloated” at about 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, stated a press release from Breakwater Monetary.
Blair McKeil, CEO of Breakwater Monetary, stated Wednesday that the tugboat took on water and was “gently resting on the underside within the mud” close to a deck.
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Beloved Canadian tugboat partially sinks at Ontario port
The Theodore Too tugboat, a large duplicate of a preferred character on a CBC youngsters’s sequence, is at present sitting on the backside of the Welland Canal in St. Catharines, Ont. The vessel began sinking yesterday, at a shipyard the place it’s docked for the winter. CBC’s Greg Ross has extra.
The corporate thanked Ontario Shipyards, the place Theodore Too is positioned, for his or her “speedy help and experience” in refloating it.
The assertion stated the Canadian Coast Guard’s Pressing Response Crew supplied tools to mitigate “any environmental considerations whereas refloating the vessel.”
Premier says tugboat a ‘true’ Nova Scotia icon
Theodore Tugboat was a youngsters’s tv present that aired on CBC from 1993 to 2001. Theodore Too was in-built Dayspring, N.S., in 2000. Its official birthday is Might 5.
Theodore Too left its province of origin in 2021 after being offered to McKeil to advertise marine careers and lift consciousness for the conservation of water assets.
Theodore Too began taking over water Tuesday night time.
A day later, McKeil stated the reason for the “unlucky incident” remained unclear.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston stated on social media that Theodore Too is a “true” icon of the province and he was “unhappy to see” the tugboat in “such a broken state.”
“I am completely happy to learn the proprietor is dedicated to repairing Theodore and a secure and profitable refloat,” he stated within the publish on X, previously Twitter, earlier this week.
