Transportation Safety Board Going Back to Queen of the North
By 250 News
Friday, April 21, 2006 01:59 PM
Queen of the North as she sits under 1400 feet of water. photo courtesy Transportation Safety Board
The Transportation Safety Board has announced it is going to conduct a second dive off Gill Island, to try and retrieve data from the Queen of the North.
The TSB says the dive will start during the second week of May and (weather permitting) will take about a week to complete.
The dive operation will focus on the wheelhouse of the vessel. TSB investigators hope to recover information relative to the vessel's movements before the grounding. The dive will also document the steering selector system and other relevant equipment in the wheelhouse.
The TSB will work with the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility (CSSF) in Sidney, British Columbia, who will operate its ROPOS (remotely operated platform for ocean science) for the dive.
The Queen of the North sank March 22 after running aground on Gil Island. Two passengers are presumed dead the other 99 people on board were able to get off the B.C. Ferry and were taken to Hartley Bay.
B.C. Ferry resumed service to Prince Rupert yesterday.
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