MYSTERY PHOTO: Moon shot

A reader sent in this shot of a sculpture of a moon.  Where and what is it?  (Hint: It’s not in the Lowcountry, but is in South Carolina.) Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Last week’s mystery, “Some maritime thing,” showed salvage operations of the Golden Ray, a container ship with hundreds of cars that capsized near St. Simons Island, Ga., in 2019.  

Congratulations to these sleuths for figuring out the mystery: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; and Jay Altman of Columbia.

Peel shared this about the ship: “The Golden Ray was a 660-ft long cargo ship that capsized on Sept. 8, 2019 in St. Simons Sound. The ship was carrying 4,200 vehicles and started to list just 23-minutes after departing the dock at Port of Brunswick’s harbor, while en-route towards the Port of Baltimore. Although four of the 23 crewmen were initially reported as missing, a rescue mission eventually found them and, thankfully, none of the 23 crewmen, three engineers or marine pilot were injured during the accident. Valued at nearly $80-million, with an additional $80 million worth of cars onboard, the ship and its cargo were declared a total loss in October 2019 and salvage operations began in December 2019.”

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