AUGUST 16, 2000 Bright Lights Classifieds Home & Garden Knight = Parenting ? Table Hopping ae Sie J wp | oe 12 Liows GATE PRotEOTY UPpare Arew yi the fuons Gate Brituc Lor uintates « Lott mato hedie te alow tor rep 5 4 cinentiat vet ter be Set bil Ted White 15 NV MP announces he will run for third term Suzanne Smith and Action Interiors create finish for prize home Living Room p15 WWW.NSREWS.COM SUMMER OLYMPICS North Shore athletes ready Jan-Christian Sorensen Contributing Writer ELEVEN North Shore athletes will represent Canada at the Summer Olympics in September. The 57th Olympiad will be held Sept. 15 to Oct. 2 in Sydney, Australia. Over 10,000 | athletes from 160 countries will take part in 28 sports at the Games. The Canadian con- tingent will see action in 24 of those events. The complete Canadian Olympic team list’ of 309 athletes was announced Tuesday morning. Local competitors were spotlight ed at a press conference at the B.C. Sport Hall of Fame in Vancouver, Leading the list of locals that will compete at the games is North Vancouver's Carol Montgomery, who will ery her luck in both the 10,000 metre and triathlon events. It’s the first time that triathlon —and ‘Tae Kwon Do — have been included in the games. Also from North Vancouver is Blythe Hartley, who will test her skills in the diving category. Joining her in the pool will be Sue Gardiner of North Vancouver, who will com- pete in the waterpoto event. A trio of — North Vancouverites will try for the gold in field hockey — Mike Mahood, Jan Bird and Paul Wertlaufer. Sce Numerous page 3 NEWS photo Terry Peters PHIL Nuytten, president of North Van-based Nuytco Research Ltd., has the Canadian government looking at the Exosult for submarine rescue. Meanwhile, North Van-based Hard Suits Inc. has Hardsuits on standby for the downed Russian sub in the Barents Sea. ll save Ii Michael Becker Newsroom Editor mbecker@nsnews.com TECHNOLOGY that would allow submarine crew members to safely leave downed vessels is under development in North Vancouver. However, commercial availability, of Phil Nuytten’s Exosuit will come too late for the 116 crew members trapped at the bottom of the Barents Sea aboard the Karsh, an Osear-class nuclear-pow- ered cruise missile attack submarine. Nuytco develops escape for trapped submariners On Tuesday, Nuytten, president: of Nuytco Research Ltd., was not optimistic about the chances of the Russians surviving their ordeal. The Kursk sank on Sunday. The 500-foot-long (152 m), 13,900-ton submarine has a double-layer hull. It was designed to withstand torpedo attack, The 3.5-metre separation between the inner and outer hulls on the Osear provides reserve buoyancy and improved survivability against conventional torpedoes. The Oscar was designed primarily to attack air- eralt carrier battle groups. The submarine is equipped with owo dozen SS-N-19 missiles with a range of 550-kilometres. The sab had at least two possible escape mecha- nisms for the crew. Said Nuytten of one of them, “In thar class of sub the conning tower is detach- able with the crew in it. If it was not detached then there is some reason for it.” Earlier this week a Russian admiral said the chances of saving the crew members of the Kursk were not high. Said Naytten, “There’s no way that anybody in this part of the world at feast would say, ‘We don't think they're going to be saved,” if there was any hope. | would guess that if there is any See NV pane & Changing Lifestyles for about a dollar a day Join Us. 1989 MARINE DR - 986-348 PRAUST bee Tt yanspa! dor alee Coen If at CUD ot arcane’