HONG KONG: Mystery over the fate of Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant deepened on Friday after its owner stirred confusion over whether the financially struggling tourist attraction had actually sunk while being towed away from the city last week.
The department said the report was delivered on Thursday, saying the restaurant had capsized but that"at present, both Jumbo and the tugboat are still in the waters off Xisha islands", using the Chinese name for the Paracels. The South China Morning Post reported a similar conversation with a spokeswoman for the company, in which they insisted the boat had"capsized", not"sank", but refused to clarify whether it was still afloat.
The company previously said marine engineers had been hired to inspect the floating restaurant and install hoardings on the vessel before the trip, and that"all relevant approvals" had been obtained.The tourist attraction closed in March 2020, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the final straw after almost a decade of financial woes.
It announced last month that ahead of its licence expiration in June, Jumbo would leave Hong Kong and await a new operator at an undisclosed location.
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