Shipwrecked American Sailor Arrested in BC

Stillraining · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

Shipwrecked American arrested as he leaves B.C. hospital - The Globe and Mail

Pictured here with is Rescuing pilot.

smackdaddy · #2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

Now that's funny.

Stillraining · #3 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

OH Rats...there the system goes again..telling me I'm not authorized to edit my own posts...

CalebD · #4 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

All he needs is a record of some past crime (DUI for instance) to render him 'unfit' to cross the border into Canada.

LandLocked66c · #5 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

Hasn't the poor guy been through enough? After all didn't he already loose his concrete boat?

blt2ski · #6 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

Got a local email sailing group I get stuff from with this link. Altho it did not include the arrest part in it!

He must have a DUI or some other issue I would think as mentioned. Then again..............

Marty

Lostmt · #7 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

We have them crossing into the US by the hundreds daily. We don't arrest them we give the welfare and SS checks. We need to be more like Canada.

sailingdog · #8 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

No kidding.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lostmt

We have them crossing into the US by the hundreds daily. We don't arrest them we give the welfare and SS checks. We need to be more like Canada.

jackdale · #9 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

In the words of Buffalo Springfield: "There's something happening here ..."

jackdale · #10 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010

From The Montreal Gazette

Quote:

Carver said he abandoned his boat, a 40-foot cement-hulled vessel, before it sank. He got into a lifeboat and headed to shore, where he camped out for five days, living on creek water and lichen before he was spotted by a helicopter.

Mark Proulx, maritime co-ordinator at the Victoria Rescue Centre, casts doubt on Carver’s story of stormy weather, however.

Proulx said between Feb. 18, when Carver dropped off his friend in Tahsis, and Feb. 26, when he said he was shipwrecked, the wind conditions were often almost too light for sailing, blowing as little as three knots on Feb. 19.

The fastest winds recorded from a buoy off Tofino were 29 knots, easy sailing weather. And that was on Feb. 26, the day Carver said his vessel sank.

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