S. Oregon Coast's Paradise Point Back Open After Salvage Effort of Grounded Ship

Published 01/23/26 at 8:55 p.m.
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection Staff

(Port Orford, Oregon) – After a little more than a week of being shut down, Paradise Point State Recreation Site is back open as of January 21. It had been closed since January 12 due to a stranded boat and the rescue effort needed, then remained closed because of the subsequent salvage effort. Texas Lady still on the beach Monday: photo Dave Foley / Port Orford and PNW Whale Watchers.

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), in conjunction with other agencies handling the situation, closed down the park. The F/V Texas Lady had grounded in dangerous surf, and the salvaging required being slowly taken apart in that tideline.

“The cleanup and salvage at Paradise Point State Recreation Site are complete, and the park reopened on Wednesday this week,” OPRD's Mike Baden told Oregon Coast Beach Connection.

According to the US Coast Guard, early in the overnight hours of January 11, the ship sent out a distress saying the 67-foot commercial fishing vessel was anchored but stranded in the surf at Paradise Point. Responding to the Texas Lady were the Sixes River Volunteer Fire Department, Sixes River Fire SCARR team (search and rescue dive team), Port Orford Fire Department RFPD, Cal Or Ambulance, and the US Coast Guard.

How or why it grounded has not yet been released.

Sixes River fire captain Ashley Moore spoke with Oregon Coast Beach Connection at length, saying that surfline is extremely dangerous. There is a shelf there that drops suddenly and a nasty undertow that snags people very easily. For this reason, conditions were extra dangerous and jumping off the ship was not possible – although one of the men did make it that way.

Click to see the ship being dismantled.

Incoming waves were nearly ten feet high and the ship itself is that high as well.

The other two were lifted as you see in the video, and two dogs were rescued from the ship as well.

Sixes River Fire provided a good amount of video of the rescue, showing some tense moments as the US Coast Guard helicopter had to carefully aim the aircraft to allow a rescue swimmer down.

The original story is here. S. Oregon Coast Fire Captain Describes Harrowing Rescue at Stranded Ship Near Port Orford - Incoming tides, high waves and a ship that was rocking violently

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