COUNTY NEWS: A simple plan to solve the digger saga?

By The Newsroom
Published 7th Apr 2017, 12:05 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:41 BST
The partially-submerged digger off the coast of Worthing beach, captured by a Phantom drone. Picture: WhiteyThe partially-submerged digger off the coast of Worthing beach, captured by a Phantom drone. Picture: Whitey
The partially-submerged digger off the coast of Worthing beach, captured by a Phantom drone. Picture: Whitey
As the saga of the digger stuck in the sea off a Sussex beach continues, one company has come forward to say they could get the machine back to shore in less than four hours.

What’s more, they want to drive it out.

The elevator excavator, which was being used in the construction of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, has been stuck in the sea off Worthing beach since Tuesday.

Richard Tully, managing director of exavactor repair specialist Atlas Technical Services, said: “If they just left me to it I could have that out of the sea in under four hours.

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