Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 27 in Nanaimo has launched its Kids Don’t Float program.
Marine search and rescue held a kickoff event at the Brechin boat launch May 12, where a Kids Don’t Float site is located, and where life-jackets will be on loan for children of all ages during the summer months, according to a press release.
Information boards at the Townsite Marina and Nanaimo Yacht Club have been also updated. Protection Island, Loudon Park, Westwood Lake Park, Brannen Lake, the Maffeo Sutton Park crab dock and Charlaine Boat Ramp are among prospective Kids Don’t Float sites.
Money for this has been provided by the Marcus Negrin Memorial Fund and through a Boating B.C. grant, the press release said.
Negrin, a fisherman from Nanaimo, died in 2015 and his family requested that donations made in his memory go to marine search and rescue.