The Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary is translating First Nations’ intimate knowledge of B.C.’s sometimes wild and unpredictable west coast into improved marine emergency response [read more]
“Ahousaht, BC — The Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary has hired its first zone coordinator to be based in Ahousaht. The CNCGA is a newly formed Indigenous Canadian Coast Guard auxiliary for the purpose of protecting mariners and the environment in order to enhance Canada’s search and rescue program through collaboration between First Nations and […]
“Clayoquot Sound, BC — Ahousaht Search and Rescue is planning an exhaustive search of the small, rugged Bartlett Island and surrounding islets for the week of Aug. 26 to 29. They are calling physically fit volunteers to take part in the search for one of their members who was last seen on the island more […]
“The federal government plans to establish Indigenous Canadian Coast Guard auxiliary units to expand its marine emergency response in partnership with coastal First Nations.” source: https://coastfunds.ca/news/funding-coming-for-indigenous-coast-guard-auxiliary/
“The federal government plans to establish Indigenous Canadian Coast Guard auxiliary units to expand its marine emergency response, according to a senior fisheries official. ‘Our plan as it stands at the moment is to build an Indigenous component to the auxiliary,’ Jeffery Hutchinson, the deputy commissioner of strategy and shipbuilding with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, […]
“The waves rose out of nowhere, tipped the boats straight up and hurled people into the churning seas. There was no time for maydays. The survivor accounts and official reports from two deadly British Columbia whale-watching tragedies 17 years apart have eerie similarities.” source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whale-watching-leviathan-wave-eerily-similar-circumstances-no-time-maydays-1.3381336
“In the days after the accident, Jamie Bray and other operators tried to defend the practice of not requiring passengers to wear lifejackets by explaining they make escape harder in an enclosed boat. That’s nonsense, says Giesbrecht. He’s conducted a study where people wearing flotation coats are plunged into water: “The assumption is this will […]