lowe Mowainco! Utsight into paramedics: 3 ioe pitges = rahe NEWS photo Mike Wakotleld Heavenly sight THE SHADOWS of construetion workers act.as a backdrop for. the newly installed # sidined glass'panels at St. John’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver. The church, yhich was destroyed by fire two years ago, will be completed in time for Easter ser- tar et AR eae seniors PAGE 35 Setar ate Na LAT A EEIEY BY NV FIRM HELPS FIND GOL Sunke LE treasure f und _ INFORMATION pin-pointing the location of a second cargo of sunken precious metal off the coast of B.C. worth an estimated $2 million has moved Can-Dive Services Ltd. to the forefront of the West Coast's burgeoning treasure recovery business. The North Vancouver deep sea diving company, currently pro- viding the underwater technical expertise and manpower for Van- couver’s Freedom) Marine Lu, will soon be gearing up to recover the estimated $5 rillion cargo from a first shipwreck containing about 720 tonnes of gold ore. The wreek was located last month in 350 feet of water in a bay 150 maes south of Prince Rupert. While the first wreck is being salvaged, the two companies will pursue recovery of an as yet undetermined amount of silver- tead ore from a second wreck some 200 miles te the north of the first find. Freedom spokesinan Sylvan Humphrey said Friday his com- pany now has the information to locate the second wreck and will verify its location, while ore from the first wreck is being recovered. He said worth of the second wreck's cargo has yet to be accu- rately assessed, ‘tbut we are estimating froin our research it will be in excess of $2 million.” In both shipwrecks, the ore was being transported by tug and barge when it was lost. Can-Dive, whose development of such revolutionary underwater equipment as the Deep Rover one-man sttbmersible and = the Newtsuit diving suit has made it one of the leaders in underwater technology, originally worked with Freedom Marine during Can- Dive’s Expo 86 diving exhibitions, Specializing in researching the various locations of what is estimated to be 1,100 shipwrecks along B.C.'s coast and raising the capital to recover the cargoes and By TIMOTHY R News Reporter artifacts aboard those wrecks, Freedom approached Can-Dive for its underwater expertise, *'because they are the best in the business,"' Freedom's investment relations manager Brent Robinson said Fri- day, Gold concentration in the ore aboard the first wreck, which went down in 1951, is estimated to be anywhere from 3.6 to 20 ounces per tonne, according to Hum- phrey. The barge was found last month with a side-scanner sonar and its Jocation verified with a Remote Operation Vehicle. The second wreck, Humphrey said, is currently lying in 186 fect of water. The tug and barge sank in 1954, Can-Dive spokesman Mark Atherton said his company has been inundated with calls from would-be treasure hunters wanting to go wreck hunting since the 1985 and '86 recovery of treasure worth close to $400 million from the Atocha shipwreck in the Florida Keys. He said Can-Dive has not yet begun recovering cargo from cither B.C. wrecks, and added thar the company’s priority remained the salvage, undersea repair and oif exploration work that makes up the buik of its business. Humphrey said he would be meeting with Can-Dive president Phil Nuytten Friday to discuss when and how the ore from the first wreck will be recovered. He estimated the operation would begin in a month.