Coast Guard Questions

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I've only just now watched the first airing of the CBC: The National story on the matter of the deaths of fishermen in Canada's Gulf of St. Laurence, but after first hearing the initial reported facts and then, early this morning, hearing the full interview with Heather Hiscox I can only echo a sentiment that I sincerely felt after my mom put to me and my dad just last night about CBC reporting on another matter entirely on a certain political issue surrounding the BC Ledge of today. Quoting myself speaking to my mom last night in the same conversation between us three and as I feel today, "the CBC doesn't have the cahones (from Spanish, her close second/third language, english definition foundhere) to do that." that is to say that I am not surprised that the CBC didn't use the chilling account from their own interview with the Captain of the vessel trailing behind the one that capsized in the story they aired during the day and eventually on their renouned national news broadcast.

I have yet to hear again the feelings or exact words that were expressed this morning in an interview with the Captain of the vessel behind the one that capsized being towed by the Canadian Coast Guard when lives were lost and I'm concerned that such scathing words have not yet been repeated. For even a feeling of what I'm getting at, please watch CBC's The National at 10pm tonight on the free CBC main network (CBUT on satellite, digi cable or US TV).

[Retrovision]

tsawwassenterminal said:

I've only just now watched the first airing of the CBC: The National story on the matter of the deaths of fishermen in Canada's Gulf of St. Laurence, but after first hearing the initial reported facts and then, early this morning, hearing the full interview with Heather Hiscox I can only echo a sentiment that I sincerely felt after my mom put to me and my dad just last night about CBC reporting on another matter entirely on a certain political issue surrounding the BC Ledge of today. Quoting myself speaking to my mom last night in the same conversation between us three and as I feel today, "the CBC doesn't have the cahones (from Spanish, her close second/third language, english definition foundhere) to do that." that is to say that I am not surprised that the CBC didn't use the chilling account from their own interview with the Captain of the vessel trailing behind the one that capsized in the story they aired during the day and eventually on their renouned national news broadcast.

I have yet to hear again the feelings or exact words that were expressed this morning in an interview with the Captain of the vessel behind the one that capsized being towed by the Canadian Coast Guard when lives were lost and I'm concerned that such scathing words have not yet been repeated. For even a feeling of what I'm getting at, please watch CBC's The National at 10pm tonight on the free CBC main network (CBUT on satellite, digi cable or US TV).

I've edited this original posting of mine as the original words came out of a less rational part of my mind than I've throught from about since; principle edit in bold.


Since I first posted about this matter, the CBC has revealed that the Canadian Coast Guard has admitted that during this event their vessel in question, the Sir William Alexander, was undergoing shift change and that there might not have been anyone at the stern to watch the tow. I'd like to review a point in the aforementioned early morning interview with the proceeding vessel Captain; his chronology mentioned the vessel in question first hitting an ice cake (floating piece of ice from which the CCG vessel was clearing the way of) and floating still after though with a heavy list, and then not long after hitting another similar chunk of churned-up ice from the CCG vessel and it being the death knell for the vessel. I, as I assume you all do, look forward to an intensive inquiry and even the possibility of the real concerns of this fleet about inadequate training being addressed along with the root causes.