When ice turns into water, it can fill-up a ship!!! This fishing boat for shrimps was idle for 2 years, they did not look too well after the boat, ….. during the very cold freezing period, the piping system of the boat was still with water, as soon as water turns into ice a pipe can burst …….. when the frost is gone water starts to run because in this case a pipe was busted by the frost………….. a fishing boat filled with water doesn’t float very well …………….. a picture of a very sad occasion!! Photos taken (16-02-2012) near the little town of Urk, on this day the boat started to make water as you can see on the photo. On the 17th of February it is already much deeper in the water and is on the bottom of the harbor and only the mast is visible. Thanks for viewing, and your lovely words on my previous postings; comments are always welcome. Have a very nice weekend Henk From Wikipedia the following info: Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Urk is first mentioned in historical records dating to the 10th century, when it was still an island in the Almere, a lake that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer. Later in the 20th century, seabed areas surrounding Urk were reclaimed from the sea and became the Noordoostpolder. The mainstay of the town's economy has always been fishing, and the products of the sea coming in through Urk's harbor continue to be exported widely, although today Urk's fishing boats must travel greater distances to gather them than was required in most historical periods.