Twenty-seven boats came off Kitsap County's waterways this summer, ending up not at the bottom of Puget Sound but on a barge bound for a scrapyard.
13 event; a twelfth was destroyed on camera for visiting officials, and DNR said the remainder were still being assessed for how they'd be broken down.
Crews warned people to stay out of the immediate area.
The Cairdeas had failed before: it burned to the waterline in 1973 and was rebuilt with an aluminum superstructure, then sank once already while moored on British Columbia's Fraser River in 1993, destroying its original fittings.
That funding came under direct threat in February, when Gov.
DNR and Kitsap County scrapped 27 aging boats in a Port Orchard event this month, a year after two Sinclair Inlet sinkings spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the same water.