Comments on: A story to smile about

By: Feygele

Feygele — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:35:11 +0000

Iris, I cannot speak for Hugh, but I was only commenting to corrected the facts of the above post, nothing more than that. I do indeed think it’s amazing that everyone was rescued, and the small BC community showed its strengths and generosity.

By: Iris

Iris — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:09:32 +0000

Good heavens – this tiny village rescues 100 people and the comments have mainly to do with 2 unaccounted for? What Scrooges – to mix a metaphor – why not a WOW! and a mention of tikkun olam, in the form of what appears to be 24-hour monitoring of the emergency radio (even though fishermen are not usually at sea at 1 AM), and the whole town turning out to help the people from the ship?

One of the news stories mentions that the previous week there were 450 on board rather than the 100 at the time of the sinking, and what would they have done then? But I’m betting they’d have done all they could, in spite of being outnumbered.

And now this fishing village has to contend with the oil slick from the sunk ship.

By: Feygele

Feygele — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:45:50 +0000

I’ve been following the story – I’m from BC – and as of CBC BC’s evening news, the two are still missing. There are conflicting accounts as to whether or not they actually got on the ferry in the first place, and some claim to have seen the couple after the rescue. Either way, the RCMP is investigating, and hasn’t been able to find them.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:18:45 +0000

I haven’t listened to the news since this morning, Meryl, but as of then, there were 2 people still unaccounted for.

Regardless, the people Hartley Bay did a great job.