| On October 18, 1972 this vessel was in a collision with the B.C. Standard at Cape Mudge BC. This vessel capsized and sank off Qualicum Beach BC on April 08, 2006. The skipper, Glenn Arkko was lost. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reports that "At about 1713 on the evening of 08 March 2006, the fishing vessel B.C. Safari was making way in the Strait of Georgia between Deep Bay and French Creek, British Columbia, when it capsized and sank. The master, who was the lone operator, is missing and presumed drowned." "The B.C. Safari was a small, wooden fishing vessel of closed construction. Below the main deck were crew quarters in the forward section of the vessel followed by the engine room with built-in fuel tanks port and starboard. Located just aft of the engine room were two insulated fish holds, number 1 (port), and number 2 (starboard), followed by the number 3 hold which ran athwartships. This was followed by a void space and a lazarette where the steering gear and two fresh water tanks were located. Drainage piping led forward from the lazarette under the fish holds to the engine room bilges. On the main deck forward was a superstructure with an enclosed wheelhouse and steering station. One set of stairs led from the rear of the wheelhouse up to the boat deck and another led down to a starboard side companionway on the main deck. From here, a fixed ladder provided access to the engine room below, and a hinged door provided access to the starboard exterior deck. Abaft the superstructure was the main working deck with three raised hatch coamings and a net drum on the centreline. An aluminum tilt ramp extending approximately 2 m beyond the stern was attached to the fir timbers. The B.C. Safari was originally built for salmon seining, but at the time of the accident it was being used as a fish packer to transport herring from the fishing grounds to another vessel that would then be used to transport the fish product to a processing plant on shore." |
