Close X
Sunday, November 10, 2024
ADVT 
National

Both vessels made mistakes in Vancouver harbour before capsize, TSB report says

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 14 Aug, 2024 03:23 PM
  • Both vessels made mistakes in Vancouver harbour before capsize, TSB report says

The Transportation Safety Board says mistakes by both the operators of a cargo ship and a pleasure craft resulted in the smaller boat being overturned in Vancouver’s harbour. 

A report from the board released Wednesday says the pleasure craft had been rented from Granville Island Boat Rentals on Oct. 15, 2022, for a tour when three people and their two dogs were thrown into the water by the larger ship's bow wave. 

While the people were rescued, the dogs were never found. 

The board’s report says the pilot of the rental boat who didn't have an operators' card was worried about staying one kilometre from the shore as directed, so wasn’t aware the larger ship was coming up from behind.

The report says no one on the Saga Beija-Flor cargo ship was on lookout as required in the very busy port, and the clear weather of that day was a factor in a lack of vigilance. 

The findings say that without adequate training, operators with little experience may not be able to safely navigate busy channels, and if vessels with obstructed visibility don’t have a lookout, risks to other vessels may go undetected. 

It says the rental company has since changed its policies and requires renters to watch a training video and emphasizes the need to give way to larger commercial vessels, especially near Vancouver Harbour bridges. 

MORE National ARTICLES

Woman rescued off B.C. glacier calls those who braved smoky conditions 'superheroes'

Woman rescued off B.C. glacier calls those who braved smoky conditions 'superheroes'
Mark Jennings-Bates, with the Kaslo Search and Rescue, says a skilled helicopter pilot was able to navigate the winds and thick smoke to rescue the hikers from the side of an alpine lake. He says the four were well prepared and used an iPhone's emergency SOS feature to provide rescuers with their precise location.

Woman rescued off B.C. glacier calls those who braved smoky conditions 'superheroes'

2 die in Merritt plane crash

2 die in Merritt plane crash
Police say a pilot and passenger are dead after an amateur-built plane crashed about two kilometres north of the Merritt airport last night.  R-C-M-P describe the two-seat aircraft as being "homebuilt" and "amphibious."

2 die in Merritt plane crash

Senior dies in motorcycle crash

Senior dies in motorcycle crash
A 71-year-old man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Twin Bays. R-C-M-P say it happened on Saturday on Highway 3-A.

Senior dies in motorcycle crash

Burnaby Hospital to expedite lab results

Burnaby Hospital to expedite lab results
Burnaby's hospital is the first in the Fraser Health region to get a new system aimed at speeding up lab results. The 1.5-million-dollar Beckman Autoline D-x-A five-thousand system has a conveyor for moving test tubes between analyzers.

Burnaby Hospital to expedite lab results

Man charged after three-year-old struck and killed in Edmonton crosswalk

Man charged after three-year-old struck and killed in Edmonton crosswalk
A man is facing charges after a three-year-old boy was killed in Edmonton when a pickup truck hit him along with his mother and sister. The crash happened in the southwest neighbourhood of Allard on June 27.

Man charged after three-year-old struck and killed in Edmonton crosswalk

Coast Guard fines owner $13,500 after failure to remove 'hazardous' vessel

Coast Guard fines owner $13,500 after failure to remove 'hazardous' vessel
A British Columbia boat owner has been fined $13,500 after failing to remove the partially sunken vessel from a bay along the coast of Vancouver Island. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the owner was given a deadline last March to remove the 12-metre fishing vessel from the waters near Gold River on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Coast Guard fines owner $13,500 after failure to remove 'hazardous' vessel