A beer company has had an eerie coincidence after a new ale named after a ship that sunk in 1898 revealed itself to swimmers on the New South Wales south coast.The Amy sank about 180 metres off the coast of Thirroul in 1898 with the loss of eight documented passengers and crewA monument to those who died on the Amy sits at the centre of a roundabout at the Thirroul beach car park
Coal Coast Brewing Company owner Kelly Carey was so captivated by the story of the brig Amy and her sinking off the Illawarra coast while travelling from Wollongong to Sydney more than 120 years ago that she named a pale ale after it.The Amy sank off the coast of Thirroul after being struck by gale-force winds, killing everyone on board, and now lies on the ocean floor in shallow water about 180 metres from shore.
"I have friends who'd surfed over it and they noticed it recently," Wollongong diver Lynne Tuck said. "The lifeguards know about it. They say every three or four years the sand shifts and they go and snorkel on it. "I'd heard it was exposed and I had a new camera that I was playing with and thought I'd take my gear out there and look because it's in four to five metres of water."
This is nothing more than an infomercial designed to promote the beer. Surprised ABC is publishing it.