The municipality hopes to be able to lift the so-called ice cream boat from the bottom of the harbor basin before the shipping season starts in earnest.

- We will only solve the practical details so it feels very good, says Lars Blomberg, who is the security manager in Oskarshamn municipality.

On the bottom for almost a year

It was at midsummer last year the boat began to take in water and finally sank. Since then, the municipality of Oskarshamn has tried in vain to make contact with the owner.

This week, the message came from the Kronofogdemyndighet that the municipality is getting help with hand stretching. However, no date for the salvage is nailed - an effort that the municipality expects to end at about SEK 300,000.

- We will send the invoice to the owner, but we do not have such high hopes of getting an answer, says Lars Blomberg.