CN-CGA members attended the November 2019 Advanced Electronic Navigation (E-Nav) for Fast Rescue Craft Operations & Leadership. Where Crews partook in pilotage, radar and night on the water collision avoidance, honing their Coxswain & Leadership with the knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently carry out those duties.
“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 than a year ago.”
Source: https://hashilthsa.com/news/2019-08-23/volunteers-needed-search-ahousaht-man-missing-last-summer
“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, said Thursday.
Hutchinson said Indigenous auxiliary units will receive the same funding and training as Coast Guard members to handle search and rescue as well as environmental incidents on the water.”
“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.”
“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 hinder their ability to escape the sinking car.” It “really doesn’t.”
Most people who die in cold water don’t die from hypothermia, he adds. They drown because cold incapacitation sets in, muscles and nerve endings stop working and they gradually become unable to keep their heads above water. “That’s why a lifejacket is so important. They will be kept alive long after a person becomes incapacitated by cold.”
Pillay was reportedly unconscious by the time he plunged into the water. Survivors tried to keep his head above water but they lost their grip, and he disappeared.”