Posted on 06/09/2024 10:32:13 AM PDT by DFG
A dramatic incident unfolded on Saturday in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour waterfront as a seaplane collided with a pleasure boat, causing injuries to several passengers on both vessels.
According to Vancouver Police spokeswoman Const. Tania Visintin, the collision occurred around 1 p.m. near Canada Place, leading to a swift response from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria. The Kitsilano Coast Guard station dispatched two vessels to the scene following reports of the plane-boat crash, as confirmed by Maritime Forces Pacific.
Efforts were made to safely bring all occupants of the seaplane and boat to shore, although details regarding their conditions were not immediately disclosed. An unspecified number of individuals were reportedly transported to a nearby hospital for further evaluation and treatment.
Social media platforms were flooded with images and videos depicting a small plane partially submerged in the water, surrounded by a SeaBus and various other vessels in the vicinity.
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Were either of the craft unable to navigate prior to the collision?
We’re going to Vancouver next week and my wife had booked a seaplane ride.
We canceled it this morning.
Upon seeing this tragic accident unfold, of course the first question on anyone’s mind, as it should be, is: “what are the pilot’s preferred pronouns?”
Your "CARS" Checkilst for landing consists of almost nothing. Carb Heat, Area Clear, Rudder in Position, Stick. Kill power and drop like a brick.
ummm, no
It’s in O Canada
The person driving the boat was probably a Weekend-Captain.
A Weekend-Captain being a person who rents a boat and has no clue about rules, regulations, or handling a motorboat.
I would take friends out in my boat and let them drive. One of the most common questions was “where is the brake pedal?”
The aircraft pilot,even if he wanted to stop or make a hard turn to avoid collision, could not. A seaplane has no brakes, it’s going much faster than most boats can go, and a hard turn will result in crashing the plane....guaranteed. It will flip like a cheerleader doing somersaults.
The boat ‘captain’ could have made a hard turn at speed with no consequences. Or pulled back on the throttle. He had two ways to avoid the crash. The pilot of the aircraft had none.
The rules are based on a standard situation that gives the most common safety.
One is also responsible for using common sense.
For example: You are coming up to a green light. You see a car coming from the cross traffic lane at high speed who will hit the intersection about the time you do.
Do you proceed, since the RULES say that GREEN LIGHT means GO and that you have the rightaway?
Many people believe that is the 'rule' and yet,it is not.
Boating rules , for instance, say that the unpowered craft gets rightofway over powered crafts. It also says larger craft get rightofway over smaller crafts. The 'rule' contradicts itself. One has to use some common sense to make decisions while out on water.
An example of the larger vs. smaller would be a 50' ocean craft coming across the path of an aircraft carrier. If you are in the smaller craft, and are to the right of the larger craft, you can pretend all you want that if you keep going that the captain of the carrier will stomp on his brakes and toot his horn , and let you continue across his bow. But they probably won't even find your body, even if they tried to turn around and come back to search.
until the collision - when they are a constant pain in the ass
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