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What is going on at Riders?Jane and Mary huffed and puffed as they rolled the oak wine cask across the shingle towards the Sea Shanty car park. "Honestly, we just came for a walk and a chat", said Mary, a retired teacher, "but then we saw all this stuff here and the police told us we could help ourselves. They were not the only ones. Branscombe Beach, usually deserted at this time of year, was heaving yesterday with hundreds of - depending on your point of view - looters, salvagers or beachcombers. While a desperate rescue operation was under way to try to prevent ecological disaster a mile off the Devon coast, a scramble of a different kind was taking place, one unlikely to have cheered the insurers of the 62,000 tonne cargo ship that was stricken in last week's storm. Among the goodies that had fallen off the back of the MSC Napoli were motorbikes - 15 disappeared yesterday - steering wheels, carpets, beauty creams, shoes, golf clubs, oil paintings and camcorders.
The salvagers carried, dragged and hauled what they could from the beach. And when they couldn't, they made sledges from wooden pallets. One gang brought their own tractor. "It's great isn't it - a cross between a bomb site and a car boot sale," said Mike Lorberg as he hauled away big bags of petfood for his three cats and two dogs. Scavengers did not lose any time yesterday, with items soon appearing on eBay. Ten steering wheel airbags advertised as coming from the MSC Napoli were up for auction before the end of the day. There were also reports from families who had lost personal possessions being transported by the Napoli, and family photographs and furnishings were among the items strewn on the beach. The free-for-all began in the early hours yesterday when word got out that a crate of BMW motorbikes, worth £12,000 each, was among the 100 or so containers that had been washed ashore. Tom 21, a Royal Marine, said: "We got here at midnight and haven't slept.
I couldn't believe my eyes. There's so much stuff - it's like an Aladdin's cave." By dawn, visitors were being directed to what they wanted, with the police apparently powerless to stop them. "I was walking down the cliff path and I met a bloke who just said to me 'if you want trainers they're on the left, and videos are on the right'," said one visitor. Hector Bird, 33, from Branscombe, admitted he was now one of those with a new bike on his front drive. He said: "A whole lot of us came down from the village at 2am. Me and my mates got two off, but we lost one of them to another gang. It was quite nasty at times and for some it came down to who was the biggest bloke. "If we hadn't rescued them, they would have ended up in the sea and useless. I feel we are not stealing them, we are helping the authorities clear them up." But Anita Bokdal, a Swedish woman sending goods to Cape Town, said she had been horrified to see photographs of her possessions being collected by beachcombers.
"I can't believe they would do this," she told the Telegraph. "Those were our personal belongings." The official line from the police and from the official in charge of such matters, the receiver of wreck, was that nothing should be moved from the beach. The very ambitious were contriving ways to recover tractors and cars half buried in the shingle, but most were happy simply to sift the debris and choose the odd item. One man carried a soggy rug over his shoulder while his wife clutched a couple of oil paintings and a golf club. A mother had to hold her child in her arms because she had crammed her pram with toys and nappies as an old man was pushing a BMX bike through the surf. Most of the cosmetics appeared to have been washed up in the shade of the towering Pinnacle Rock. Jess, 19, had chosen some Lancôme anti-ageing cream for her father. "He'll be pleased with this - it's really expensive, you know." The shoes were a little more problematic; it was easy enough to find one nice bright pink Croc sandal, much harder to find its partner among the thousands strewn over the high-tide mark.
At sea the more serious work continued. Two hundred tonnes of oil seeped from the ship and oil-coated seabirds continued to be washed up along a 40-mile stretch of the Jurassic coast, a World Heritage site. Sophie Atherton, of the RSPB, said: "This is something that is going to get more and more serious as time goes on and the potential for disaster is huge." The coastguard was more confident that another 3,500 tonnes of fuel oil on the vessel could be transferred safely. Legally, whether it be a £12,000 BMW motorbike or an armful cache of nappies, none of the booty washed ashore from the Napoli is fair game for beachcombers. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency's receiver of wreck, Sophia Exelby - it is her job to settle disputes over wrecks - has warned that anyone who takes goods from the beach without informing the authorities is in effect stealing and could face a fine of up to £2,500 for each item. Those who do report a recovery may be entitled to a reward if they complete the appropriate forms, which police officers and coastguard officials have been handing out to anyone scouring the shore for goods.