CAPE D — A fishing vessel that grounded on rocks around A-Jetty and sank near Cape Disappointment with thousands of pounds of Dungeness crab in its hold earlier this month is now considered “unrecoverable.”

Last seen close to the tip of the jetty, the approximately 78-foot-long Titan is under 40 feet of water and likely to stay there until after the first of the year.

“It essentially becomes an artificial reef,” said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Jonathan Klingenberg.

The Titan’s owner, HD Fisheries LLC, contracted with Global Diving & Salvage to try to retrieve the vessel after efforts by the Coast Guard and crew to keep it from flooding failed and the five crew members had to abandon it early in the morning Dec. 5.

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