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Transportation Safety Board team to probe lifeboat incident off Vancouver
BY , Dec 3, 2020 10:24 PM - REPORT AN ERRORA team from the Transportation Safety Board will try to figure out why a covered lifeboat suddenly fell from a bulk carrier in English Bay on Tuesday, injuring two crew members.
The sailors were badly hurt when the lifeboat fell from the freighter Blue Bosporus as a drill was underway.
Quick action by first responders, including the Vancouver police boat and a vessel from the Kitsilano coast guard station, stopped the lifeboat from sinking.
It's not the first time a covered lifeboat has fallen from a ship in English Bay, three Ukrainian crew members died and another was hurt when a problem with the launch mechanism dropped their lifeboat almost 15 metres into the water in October, 2000.
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