Cameras installed as part of a Lancaster University research project have captured images of the stricken ferry Riverdance which was run aground just off Blackpool.

The ferry was stranded on a sand bank at Cleveleys, after being hit by a freak wave according to the crew on Thursday, January 31. 

Photographs of the vessel were captured using ARGUS video cameras which automatically take images every 30 minutes during daylight ( http://argus-data.wldelft.nl/sites/cleven/2008/c3/035_Feb.04/index.html).

The cameras – installed as part of an ongoing project between the University, Wyre Borough Council and Deltares (previously Delft Hydraulics) - are monitoring the beach changes in the front of a new seawall in Cleveleys.

Dr Suzana Ilic of Lancaster University’s Geography Department said: “The fact that a ridge had formed on the beach stopped the ship from running into the seawall".

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