Organisers of mini-festival Why Make Sense ran into a spot of bother when a number of decommissioned sea containers that were placed along the shoreline to act as a windbreak and sound proofing washed into the ocean.
Fortunately the containers washed into the sea once the weekend-long event at Port Beach in North Fremantle had already wrapped up. The festival featured international names of Julio Bashmore, T. Williams, Gold Panda and Maribou State. Organiser Saran Bajaj issued a statement yesterday regarding the incident.
“Bad weather from the last twelve hours or so was much worse than anticipated and a large amount of beach sand was displaced which caused the position of the containers to shift,” the statement read. "The containers are not considered to pose risk to public safety. They have been decommissioned, meaning they have holes in them so they are designed to sink, not float. Horizons Touring has taken responsibility for the clean-up and is making clean-up arrangements now.”
“Although the sea container issue was a mishap the City considers it minor and well managed with no risk to public safety or the beach and its surrounds," City of Fremantle manager of economic development and marketing Tom Griffiths told Perth Now. "On this basis we don’t expect last night’s incident to affect further events of this nature being held at Port Beach or other coastal locations around Fremantle.”