Divers have visited the wreckage of a boat that sank during Cyclone Tracy 50 years ago to lay a wreath for those who died during the storm.
Fifty years after Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin in 1974, divers have laid a wreath at the site of a shipwreck where five people drowned.
Ruth Vincent was 24 years old when she boarded the Booya after work, and her eldest son Tony, who remembers sheltering under a bed to survive, was nine."Once the cyclone was coming to Darwin, they left the moorings and tried to ride the storm out, but it was too big," Mr Vincent said.After laying the wreath and emerging, divers from the Darwin Sub Aqua Club described to the family what they saw below as a peaceful "underwater garden" of coral and fish.
Shipwreck Cyclone Tracy Darwin Harbour Ruth Vincent Nt Northern Territory
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