The Port of Nanaimo and the Canadian Coast Guard were called upon over the long weekend after a sailboat sank at Stones Marina.
Only the mast was showing above the water Tuesday, Sept. 5, where the craft was moored in one of the marina’s slips next to the fuelling dock in Newcastle Channel after it sank in the early evening Sunday, Sept. 3.
Capt. Satinder Singh, port authority vice-president of operations and harbour master, said Stones Marina staff called the port at about 6:30 p.m. when the 50-foot vessel sank.
“Our crew responded as per port protocols and containment was established,” Singh said, in an e-mail. “Other vessels in the vicinity were cleared due to proximity to the sunken vessel.”
He said the NPA patrol division contacted the Canadian Coast Guard regional operations centre and the coast guard will be “communicating with compliance enforcement to support removal of the sunken vessel and supporting Stones Marina.”
Singh said the marina will work with the sailing vessel’s owner to remove it from the environment. The cause of the sinking has not been determined and is under investigation.
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