LDS Charities Restores Fishing Boat, Returning Fishermen to the Seas
Due to the tsunami of 2004, the fishing boat Bolivia was damaged and sunk to the bottom of the Krueng Aceh River. After the boat had been submerged for two months, the United States Army and the Australian army helped to pull it from the water. There the boat remained untouched for a year.
Latter-day Saint Charities and Austin International Rescue and Relief Operations (AIRO) began a restoration project of the large fishing boat that was completed in November 2006.
On 21 November 2006, a local imam performed a blessing on the boat, and then the boat was launched.
The original owner of the boat and his spouse perished during the tsunami. Their three children survived and will now receive 50 percent of the profits from the fishing boat.
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The Bolivia is launched after it is restored by LDS Charities.
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