Shipwreck pillager pleads guilty, fined R10 000
By Herald Reporter - 12 May 2015
A PORT Elizabeth salvage diver and boat skipper has become just the second person in South Africa to be convicted of illegally pillaging a shipwreck.
Cornelius “Jimmy” Uys , 51, and his son, Carl, 20, were arrested in March last year after they were caught red-handed while diving with pillaging equipment off the Queen’s Moor, which sank off Noordhoek on the outskirts of Algoa Bay in 1934.
Charges against Carl were later withdrawn while Uys yesterday pleaded guilty.
-Gareth Wilson
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