Canadian Coast Guard

• Cleanup winding down on False Creek mystery spill, but source remains unknown

  Efforts to clean up an oily material from Vancouver's False Creek are winding down, but officials say they still don't know where it came from.

  Environment

  Dec 13, 2023
  
• Coast Guard investigating oily sheen in Vancouver’s False Creek

  Michelle Imbeau, a spokeswoman with the Coast Guard, says crew members from their Kitsilano base were using "remotely piloted aircraft" to determine the source.

  Environment

  Dec 6, 2023
  
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• Runaway barge wrangled from hitting Vancouver’s English Bay Beach

  A runway barge in Vancouver got awfully close to beaching in English Bay.

  Canada

  Nov 19, 2023
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• ‘Shameful’: Mariners’ union slams loss of search technology on B.C. coast

  A key maritime union says it is "shameful" the federal government has let an old but reliable search tool fall into disrepair on the B.C. coast.

  Canada

  Nov 17, 2023
• Loss of key coast guard tool putting lives at risk on B.C. coast, former officer says

  The former superintendent of B.C.'s coast guard stations says the loss of a tool known as radio direction finding has degraded the service's ability to find boats in distress.

  Canada

  Nov 16, 2023
• ‘Miracle’: 1 of 2 missing U.S. fishermen found adrift in life raft off Vancouver Island

  One of two missing mariners was found alive in a life raft Thursday, a day after U.S. officials had suspended their search and two weeks after their vessel left port in Washington.

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2023
• 1 dead after vessel capsizes off Vancouver’s Wreck Beach

  The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) said it received a distress call from the vessel near Wreck Beach around 1:30 p.m.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2023
• Search and rescue crews look for overdue boaters on Great Slave Lake: Yellowknife RCMP

  RCMP in Yellowknife, NWT, received a report on Thursday that two boaters had not returned from their boating trip on Great Slave Lake. An aerial search was planned for Saturday.

  Canada

  Oct 14, 2023
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• Hundreds of derelict vessels removed from Canadian waters: Coast Guard

  The coast guard's list of wrecks now has nearly 1,500 entries, roughly two-thirds of which are in British Columbia.

  Environment

  Sep 27, 2023
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• Police identify victims after fishing boat sinks off Quebec coast

  The Silver Condor had already sunk by the time rescuers arrived – nearly four hours after a distress signal was received at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday.

  Sep 26, 2023