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Two Men Rescued Without Injuries After Tugboat Sinks In Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, No Fuel Leak

The Canadian Press, 13 Sep, 2015 12:20 PM
    VANCOUVER — Two men were pulled from Vancouver's harbour without injuries after a tugboat sank on Friday evening.
     
    The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre says it received a call at 6 p.m. that a 15-metre tugboat towing a barge had capsized.
     
    The centre says the men were only in the water for a short time before they were rescued and treated by paramedics on shore.
     
    The tugboat sank near the Centerm Terminal, east of Crab Park in Burrard Inlet.
     
    NO INDICATION OF FUEL LEAK AFTER TUGBOAT SINKS IN VANCOUVER'S HARBOUR: DFO
     
    A spokesman for Fisheries and Oceans Canada says there's no evidence of a fuel leak after a tugboat capsized in Vancouver's harbour on Friday evening.
     
    Dan Bate says a fast-response coast guard boat arrived on scene about 11 minutes after the tugboat Ocean Gordon called for help around 6 p.m.
     
    The 15-metre vessel was towing a gravel barge near the Centerm Terminal, east of Crab Park in Burrard Inlet, when it sank.
     
    Bate says neither the coast guard nor vessels from Port Metro Vancouver have spotted any recoverable pollution at the site.
     
    Plans are underway to lift and remove the boat from the sea floor; Western Canada Marine Response Corporation is on standby for a possible fuel leak.
     
    Two people abandoned the sinking tugboat and were quickly recovered without injury by a nearby vessel.

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