A34 - Wednesday, April 11, 1984 - North Shore News

OFF WHYTECLIFFE

Coast Watcher pilot project

ALEC McPHERSON hikes to watch.

From the comfort of his living room in Copper
Cove in the Whytecliffe area, he can see a wide
sweep of Howe Sound. There’s a telescope at the
window, a marine chart of the Sound on the wall
and a telephone nearby.

By MA HAMILTON

boater’s attention to the man

in trouble.
“? don’t know’ whether
Saturday it all went the boat heard me or
together for McPherson, a ot,’’ McPherson said. *‘At
charter member of the Coast any rate, they headed out

Watcher division of the

and picked up the fellow,
North and West Vancouver

who had managed to crawl

McPherson, who has gone
from being a volunteer to
the program’s mos! w.dent
supporter.

Coast watchers can _ per-
form a number of tasks, says

can be called on = during
searchs for overdue vessels
to keep a close eye on their
particular stretch of the
coast. If there are enough of
them — and that’s the goal

Tully Waisman of the — of the marine rescue unit —
Marine Rescue Unit. As well most of the coastal areas can
as acting as McPherson did be put under surveillance
Saturday, Coast Watchers quickly, leaving the Coast

Emergency Program. up on to his over-turned
While he watched from his boat.’’

window, a 10 or 12 foot The interval between

aluminum cartop boat, McPherson seeing the boat

heavily loaded in the stern,
was flipped over by rough
water. The lone occupant of
the boat went into the water
McPherson went to work,
contacting the Rescue
Command Centre in Victoria

go over and the arrival of
the boat from Harseshoe
Bay to effect the rescue was
a mere 11 minutes.

The incident — and the
swiftness of the rescue —
confirmed the importance of

and maintaining voice con.
tact with BC's. official
rescue agency, while he used

the pilot Coast Watch pro-
gram to both McPherson
and the marine unit of the

his telescope to keep the man = North Shore rescue group
in the water in sight. It's increased their deter-
He was alert, too, tor mination to have the pro-
other boats in the water and gram up and running tull
when one headed out tnto' time.
the sound from Horseshoe ‘Ideally, we should have
Bay, McPherson used his every house with a water
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and such agencies as the
Canadian Marine’ Rescue
Auxihary free to concentrate
on the open water.

The Coast Watcher pro-
gram is strictly voluntary

and, as such, does not put
any
regular

under
stand

those involved
obhgation to

SPUR EACH PIECE

now on sc

pays off with Saturday rescue

watches or even to be on call
during emergencies.

More information on the
Coast Watch program can
be obtained from the North

and West Vancouver
Emergency Program at
985-1311 or from McPher-

son at 921-9197.

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