Sub sinking coverage at issue

NEWS REPORTERS’ note
books ~ and papers were
packed up last week and sent
tow media lawyer in a case
involving a.West: Vancouver
man and his sailboat sunk by.
a Chilean submarine in Juan
‘de Fuca Strait last September.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
The move followed a. visit 10
the News by Vancouver RCMP
investigator Const. Alex Borden
2 Aug. 31. ;
The RCMP federal crime ofti-
cer is ‘investigating .an alleged
felease oft-a confidential draft
report authored < by — the
“Transportation Safety Board of
Canada (TSBC) and cited in two
‘recent articles. :
*“Y think he (Borden) mentioned
that a-search warrant. was possible
‘somewhere down the road in the
process,” said Bob Mackin, a
News contributing writer who
teported about the sailboat sinking
inJuly os. ;

Media lawyer David Sutherland
advised the News to ‘pack up all
material about Jory Lord and his
fateful voyage to avoid “any diffi-
~ culties" relating to a search war-
rant. “

Last year on Sept. 11, Lord was

“gailing his. sailboat, Mooaglow,
*. froma western part of Vancouver
. Island to-Victoria when he was hit
by a diesel-powered Chilean sub-
--marine in: foggy! conditions near -
Sheringham Point...
~ Lord’ contends that’ he was
obeying all boating rules when he
was hit by the sub,
~The confidential TSBC draft

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the S600-mitlion.sub denied at first
that there was a collision.
The submarine had American

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“Lord has been up-against three
countries — Canada, Chiie and the
United States — along with their
defence departments, in his bid for
explanation of and compensation
for the sinking.

Said Lord on Monday, “I have-a
right to talk about a report that is
net abjective, Ho was blatantly
biased (against me).”

Lord lived aboard his $300,000

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vessel and used it for his liveli--

hood in commercial kayak expedi-
tions in the Queen Charlotte area
and near Chayoquot Sound, °

He ‘is “working in Horseshoe
Bay on a tugboat with his father,
harbormaster Bill Lord.

“The: government seems to be '
offering me three square meals and:

a bed.” said Lord of the ‘police
investigation.

Lord said Borden had not con--

tacted him...
Meanwhile. the | Vancouver
RCMP federal: crime investigator

“told News staff that he is investi-

giting a possible breach of the

‘Transportation Accident’ Invest:
“gation and Safety Act. :

Penalties fora conviction under
the obscure section of the act carry

a maximum six-month. jail term -

and a $2,000 fine.

Lord's boat was not insured for
perils such as accidents as the cost
was “prohibitively” expensive for
a 15-metre (50-ft.) 1939 wooden
boat, said Bill Lord, :

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