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By Rebecca Ricks
image captionScientists say some abandoned boats pose a risk to the environment
It s been called the fly-tipping of the maritime world. Hundreds of plastic boats are dumped on foreshores and tidal creeks around Devon and Cornwall. The problem is costing authorities thousands of pounds, harming the environment and can be seen from space but dealing with it has, in some cases, become torturous .
Sinking into the mud of Hooe Lake the 65ft (20m) former fishing boat, Dignity , sheds her toxic paint into the sediment.
She is just one of hundreds of boats to lie abandoned on the shores and tidal creeks of Devon and Cornwall posing a risk to the environment.