Good to hear someone is being held responsible for their lack of paying attention.

Sad to hear the Second Officer lost his job while having lunch. I wonder what it was he didn't do while being on his break to warrant firing him?

I wondered about the Second Officer too and found another news account that mentioned that he was fired because, like the other two, he did not cooperate with the company's investigation.

guilty as charged.

So the captain was also fired, for what reason? What part did he have to play in this? If he was fired just because he was Captain then hey maybe that usless bag of wind CEO of the ferries should also be fired since he is ultimately in charge. Hey and his boss is gordo, maybe he can be fired. One can only hope.

Seamuut? The captain of the boat did not get fired.

Navagational officer Lilgert, Quartermaster Bricker, secound officer Hilton were the ones that were in charge. The Captain was off shift.

...and it will take another 4 years before this goes to trial.

Let's not pretend that we have a justice system in BC.

I am pleased to see that justice will be served.
Lilgert should not shoulder the responsibility alone however, Bricker should also have been charged with the same crime.
Their actions that night are entirely inexcusable, I think everyone knows or has heard of the scuttlebutt that is now being described as 'personal conversation'
metalman.

That must have been one heck of an intense personal conversation they were having.

Once upon a time an old SEADOG told me if you really love somebody or a politician you must set them free or at least include them in every conversation.
Judging from the unbridled love shown in one of the above posts and following the same streams of logic the officer who may have been busy indulging in some Bridge Calisthenics and let the Queen hit a rock and two people died was probably not responsible since it had to be Gordon's fault.
So following the same stream of logic those "Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet him" brain trusts that drift over the line and head on an oncoming car are not really the problem. The problem was wait a minute
Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone.
It is all very clear now. Anyone for a game of the 'Shack Nasties?"

Still far too much about this case that has never been told after 4 years.
How could it possibly take 4 years to lay charges?
How has the lid been kept on the truth as to what actually happened that night...and who is telling everyone involved to keep their mouths shut?
Why only one person charged?
There are no grey area's in marine law and it is obvious there was a multitude of rules and laws broken that night.
Most of all...why no public inquiry?
Stinky...very stinky.
I smell a whitewash,financially and politically.

I'm guessing that BC Ferries wants to limit the damage to its reputation, which is why a lot of details are being kept quiet. It wants to separate itself from the actions of a couple of people on one night.

The people involved were let go, charges were laid, the BC Ferries Corporation just wants to move on from that without getting involved in the PR nightmare that would come about if all the details were known.

You're right Mr.PG... but that still doesn't explain how they have managed to keep everyone quiet for 4 years?
Seems everyone in Rupert will tell you what happened that night, and they usually all tell the same story.
Apparently the ferry crew did do some talking on the night it happened and then all of a sudden,they shut right up.
Another one of those things that just make you go...hummmmm.

Is it true that the two people on the bridge deck was having sex at the time?

Navigation equipment that would have warned of a collision had been turned off weeks earlier.

The above quote is taken from CBC news this morning. Seems we didnt get all the facts on this site
And the bodies of the two claimed to be dead have never been recovered. Why is that? Seems to me that the Ferries Corp should of been sued for nelagence for not recovering the two bodies. Maybe they werent even on the ferry.
Cheers

They WERE on the ferry Retired,and it's not hard to figure out where they are right now.
Why they didn't make it off is a mystery, and one that does need to be answered.
The ship floated for two hours before finally going down.
What happened to them?
And it is completely feasable to raise the ship.
A couple of ocean going salvage tugs could do the job easily,but it seems nobody wants anything to do with that,including insurance companies and B.C.Ferries.
What about the B.C.Environmental Ministry?
How odd...they nothing to say?
There is actually another ship in roughly the same area that went down many years ago (end of the war?) and it still leaks fuel from time to time.
Nobody seems to care about that either.
Everything about this stinks!

Andyfreeze that whitewash you speak of is actually spelled: U.N.I.O.N.

Gerald and Shirley are most likely in Davy Jones' Locker inside the ferry that the Mothercorp says is "Too deep" and /or "Too likely to leak fuel/break apart if hoisted"
I don't know what the truth is, anyone who does is not talking.
It is all ( so far ) a travesty of justice.
metalman.

You may very well be right metalman,and if in fact the union IS involved,why is nobody saying that?
Hopefully time will tell, but I ain't betting on that!
The issue I have with inquiry's is that under normal circumstances, nobody can have their testimonies used against them.
They are absolved of any blame before the inquiry even starts!
Having sat on the jury at an inquest,I can tell you that everything is controlled towards a specific out come.
You cannot find "blame".
No finger pointing allowed!
As we know from the Robert Dziekanski tazering at YVR,that CAN be changed and charges actually laid assuming their is the will to do so.
Do we think that will really happen?
Not bloody likely!
In the end,I still am amazed at the overall silence by so many who were there that night.
That isn't normal...it's plain weird!