B.C. ferry sinks; all on board accounted for [UPDATED]

[Perilscope]

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“From what we hear, it took about an hour for the ship to sink so most of the people did manage to get onto lifeboats,” :up:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060322.w2ferry0322/BNStory/National/home
http://www.nettouring.com/images/Public/BC_Ferry.png

UPDATED SECTION--------------------------------------------------------
Just an update to show a picture of the missing couple lost in the B.C ferry tragedy.
I do not think we will ear from them again, well I hope we will, but I do not think so… :(
Shirley Rosette - Gerald Foisy
http://www.nettouring.com/images/Public/BC_Ferry_Lost_Couple.png

[Sixpack]

Glad they survived 'the cruel sea' :up:

[JSLTIGER]

A lot of ferries going down recently... :-?

[TteFAboB]

About time we start fighting back against the giant squids, no?

[Kapitan]

why dont they just threaten the squids with giant vacuume cleaners

[Oberon]

Doesn't anyone play Red Alert 2?
The only way to defeat Soviet mind-controlled squids is to use dolphins with amplified sonar packs! :nope: ;)

[STEED]

About time we start fighting back against the giant squids, no?

That must be one big squid, watch out here come the fishermen from Japan :88)

[Perilscope]

The only justification I have for the sinking of this boat is shown in the image below…
It was caught between two waves with an unusual wavelength making the center point very low…
http://www.nettouring.com/images/Public/BC_Ferry_Squid.png
Note that in both cases, the squid was not the cause of the sinking…:D

[Torplexed]

I was off the Queen Charlottes last summer on my way north to Alaska. An extremely rugged and wild place along 99% of it's shoreline. They're lucky they sank off one the few spots of civilization the place has to offer. The marine weather conditions in the Hecate Strait can be nightmarish at times. I was there on a nice day and the QCI still looked forbidding.

http://zioxville.homestead.com/files/QueenCharlottte.jpg :cool:

[Perilscope]

The marine weather conditions in the Hecate Strait can be nightmarish at times. I was there on a nice day and the QCI still looked forbidding.If that picture is near or is Hecate Strait I understand your point, it looks very treacherous. Coastlines with mountains like that can make the wind and water unpredictable. I even heard that we could see giant water swirls half the size of a football field… :huh:

[AG124]

It looks as if two people might have been killed after all - there was a mistake when all were said to have been accounted for.

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc-ferrymissing.html

[GunnersMate]

Did you ram them with your supertanker Kapitan?

[Kapitan]

Nope supertanker is nicely tied up in port. :smug:

[Abraham]

The marine weather conditions in the Hecate Strait can be nightmarish at times. I was there on a nice day and the QCI still looked forbidding.If that picture is near or is Hecate Strait I understand your point, it looks very treacherous. Coastlines with mountains like that can make the wind and water unpredictable. I even heard that we could see giant water swirls half the size of a football field… :huh:
Hi Perilscope, what's that ship you hold in your periscope?
:)

[Perilscope]

It looks as if two people might have been killed after all - there was a mistake when all were said to have been accounted for.I hate when that happens, a perfect story turns out to be sour after all… Thanks for the update.:up:

Hi Perilscope, what's that ship you hold in your periscope? :)Hi, to you too, the boat that will be in peril is the HMS Hood. :)

[Torplexed]

Yeah....I heard that there may have been a BC couple still left aboard in their cabin. The inquiry on this one will not be pretty.

Been a bad week for the maritime profession. Cruise ships afire...cruise tour buses overturning. :o

[Abraham]

It looks as if two people might have been killed after all - there was a mistake when all were said to have been accounted for.I hate when that happens, a perfect story turns out to be sour after all… Thanks for the update.:up:

Hi Perilscope, what's that ship you hold in your periscope? :)Hi, to you too, the boat that will be in peril is the HMS Hood. :)
Yep, I thought so. I can identify her while she's quikly escaping from your tubes...
:P

[Perilscope]

Yeah....I heard that there may have been a BC couple still left aboard in their cabin.Sad, I do not know why, but I want to know where they are and how they died, if dead... :hmm:

Yep, I thought so. I can identify her while she's quikly escaping from your tubes...
:P4 minutes later, she was struck by a salvo of 3 torps… ;)

[Abraham]

Yeah....I heard that there may have been a BC couple still left aboard in their cabin.Sad, I do not know why, but I want to know where they are and how they died, if dead... :hmm:

Yep, I thought so. I can identify her while she's quikly escaping from your tubes...
:P4 minutes later, she was struck by a salvo of 3 torps… ;)
And...?
Did you sink her?
:o

[Perilscope]

Did you sink her? :oCrap, you had to ask… that particular time I have to admit, no. :down:

[Abraham]

If you'd said "Yes" I'ld have asked to check your records...
:D

[Etienne]

Yeah....I heard that there may have been a BC couple still left aboard in their cabin.Sad, I do not know why, but I want to know where they are and how they died, if dead... :hmm:

Everybody gets off (Meaning the crew did their job) safe for one lone, romantically engaged couple?

I don't have THAT much passenger experience, but I can safely make a guess as to what they were doing. Think about it. I can't take a guess as of where, tho.

Passengers really are the worst cargo.

[Perilscope]

If you'd said "Yes" I'ld have asked to check your records...
:DYou are a Dutch Commodore, you can't check foreign documents activities…:D

…but I can safely make a guess as to what they were doing. Think about it. I can't take a guess as of where, tho.Neither I can understand why they didn't ear the alarm. Maybe they have gone missing after the ship sank; the sea was bad after all, who knows… :hmm:

[Abraham]

If you'd said "Yes" I'ld have asked to check your records...
:DYou are a Dutch Commodore, you can't check foreign documents activities…:D
@ Perilscope:
You Seek Me, I Seek U 2
If Me Find U, Me Search U 2
Hugo Grotius: De Mare Libero (1633)
It's that simple! :know:

[Etienne]

…but I can safely make a guess as to what they were doing. Think about it. I can't take a guess as of where, tho.Neither I can understand why they didn't ear the alarm. Maybe they have gone missing after the ship sank; the sea was bad after all, who knows… :hmm:

Passengers will panic at a false alarm, and ignore a real one. It's one of their many interesting flaws.

Especially if there's only a couple of passenger in a broom closet, you know.

[Perilscope]

Like this or any other tragedy, it is important to remember that when traveling by sea, air or ground, too always be vigilant and responsive at all time. It is maybe your vacation, but tragedy does not take vacations. :-?