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Five injured for practice

a
Lifeboat
society
im action
FIVE PEOPLE, in-
jured when their 12-
foot aluminum boat
capsized off the shore
of Bowyer Island, were
strewn along 150 feet ,
of rocky shoreline
when the volunteers of .
the B.C. Lifeboat a

Society Lifeboat #5 ar-
rived on the scene.

| ‘By MARK HAMILTON :

Within half an hour their
injuries had been stabilized
and they were on their way
to waiting ambulances for
full treatment.

The biggest benefit wasn't
for the injured though — it
was for the 20 people in-
volved in the society’s most
ambitious training session to
date.

The exercise, mounted on
a sunny Sunday, involved .
members and potential "
members of the volunteer
organization in both search
and rescue techniques.

While the major reason
for the exercise was the
desire to sharpen the skills of
the volunteer members of
the group, it was as impor-
tant to show the value of the
service.

The reason for that is ri
funding.

Station number five of the
B.C. Lifeboat Society —
operating out of Fisherman's
Cove — was born out the
desire to help and the need
to fill the gap left when the
provincial Emergency
Measures Organization an-
nounced it was getting out of ;
the marine rescue business. :

Tully Waisman had pro-
vided the basis of the marine
capability for the North and
West Vancouver Emergesicy
Service ~- occasionally car-
rying out rescue ‘operations
by himself,

With the change in policy,
Waisman turned to the B.C.
Lifeboat Society, a volunteer
group based) on - similar
societies that have suc-

B.C. LIFEBOAT Society members roared into action two Sundays ago hut it was just a
drill, Led by Tully Waisman (in Lifeboat Number Five below) the volunteers reacted (o a
staged incident in which five people suffered ‘‘injuries’’ after their boat overturned off
Bowyer Istand.

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