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Runaway barge floats in English Bay

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 20 Nov, 2023 04:11 PM

People in Vancouver may have experienced déjà vu this weekend as a runaway barge floated in waters of English Bay before it was brought under control.

The empty barge had broken free of its mooring buoy and a video posted to YouTube shows it floating just a few metres away from shore yesterday.

It was reminiscent of another barge that was stuck for a year at a neighbouring beach after it broke free during the November 2021 storms.

But two Coast Guard vessels kept yesterday's barge from running aground and it has now been secured to a different mooring buoy.

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