A dozen cars from Oak Island may be buried at sea — courtesy of Hurricane Isaias
At least a dozen cars vanished from Oak Island off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Isaias, according to Oak Island Water Rescue.
Almost a month later, they still haven’t been found.
Rescue officials think that’s because the cars have been swimming with the fishes since Isaias made landfall as a Category 1 storm on Aug. 3 near Ocean Isle Beach, about 15 miles southwest of Oak Island. If Isaias dragged an entire barge into a hotel swimming pool, as McClatchy News reported, what’s a few cars?
“It’s not just plausible,” Oak Island Water Rescue Chief Tony Young told Fox 8. “We had three cars in front of our station that started the night up on the beach.”
Rescue officials used three drones to search the west end of the island for debris and missing vehicles on Aug. 23, Oak Island Water Rescue said in a Facebook post.
“It has been reported that as many as 12 cars are unaccounted for and possibly in the ocean,” the post states.
Drone footage captured a stingray swimming near the ocean surface, some floating debris and “buoys far from their correct location,” Water Rescue said.
They didn’t, however, find any cars.
But rescue officials said they did “find one area that requires further investigation,” according to the Facebook post.
“We saw some kind of a big, dark object, and we said that’s something that could potentially hurt somebody,” Young told WWAY. “Either a boat, or just swimming out here.”
In an interview with FOX 8, he described it as “this big blob in the water” that “looks like a plume of something’s coming off of it.”
Oak Island Water Rescue went back out the night of Aug. 26 to try to find the object “by hand by sticking sticks down into the water,” WWAY reported.
But choppy conditions reportedly made it next to impossible, and now they can’t find it.
Young told FOX 8 they’d like to get it out if it is a vehicle.
“If there is a car out there it’s got oil, and gas and transmission fluid,” he said, according to the TV station. “All that stuff we don’t want in our waters anyway.”
