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Channel No Stranger to Big Wind and Waves

By 250 News

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Former long time Hartley Bay resident Sammy Robinson says the weather may have been okay up the Douglas Channel or up towards Prince Rupert , but he said "Because there are four channels coming together where the Queen of the North sank, thirty foot waves are not uncommon." 

Robinson, who now lives in Kitimat, says "I was heading to a funeral there a couple of years ago, when the wind came up in the channel in about three minutes, the waves were at least thirty feet high" he said and there were four boats caught in that storm "We were all lucky to make it to shore." 

"I think he hit bottom in that narrow channel" Robinson said "and they then plowed into the Island,".  According to Robinson,  had they stayed on the reef they first hit ,they wouldn’t have sunk. 

"The waves can get real bad at Camp point" says Robinson, and that is near where the ferry sank.
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