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  Event Details  
  Event Title   Moreton Bay, Qld: Launch-Sinking (in Storm Seas)   
  Event Category   Severe Storm   
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  Event Start Date   07/06/2001   
  Event End Date   07/06/2001   
 

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  Location  
  Zone   Queensland   
  Region   Brisbane   
  Map   81   
         
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  Property Damaged   Damaged Destroyed  
  Boats     1    
         
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  Information Sources  
  Source/s   Printed Press - Sydney Morning Herald
Printed Press - Courier Mail (Brisbane)
Printed Press - Newcastle Herald
Government Agency - Bureau of Meteorology 
 
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  Details  
  By 17 July, searchers had failed to find any trace of four men who had not been seen since leaving the small Sunshine Coast port of Mooloolaba headed for Swansea, NSW on July 6. They had ignored warnings of stormy conditions and heavy seas with swells from 4m to as high as 8m (according to the Bureau of Meteorology). The damaged wreck of 'Just Cruisin', their 11.6 metre converted wooden trawler was found in the shallow water at the northern entrance of Moreton Bay on 14 July.

It is believed the cruiser broke up after being swapped by large waves less than eight hours after leaving Mooloolaba.

The air and sea search ran for six days and covered a large area of the east coast. It involved more than 20 fixed wing aircraft and 13 helicopters