A SCUBA diving accident Sunday near West Van- couver’s Whytecliff Point sent four people to Van- couver General Hospital — one of them in critical con- dition. By Michael Becker News Reporter A West Vancouver Fire Department crew and B.C. Am- bulance Service crews were called to the scene at about 12:30 p.m. A North Shore Lifeboat Society crew arrived shortly after. Maureen Shore, 20. of North Vancouver had been diving with her sister and two others near Whyte Island, a popular local spot for divers. Shore was surfacing with her sister when something went wrong. According to a fire department spokesman Shore had trouble maintaining equilibrium at about 60 feet beneath the surface. On her way up she fost consciousness, Fitted with a weight) belt, she began to sink. Her descent was halted at about 110 feet when twe of her diving companions caught up with her and removed her weight belt. She was brought to the surface and given oxygen. According to one emergency crew member, Shore had been un- conscious under water for about Terry Peters Pie in the eye BRENDA MUNROE lines up her friend Debbie Sebela with a chocolate cream pie during radio station LG73’s Constable Bob’s Cow Pie Throwing Contest held recently at the Lonsdale Quay market. While it was a messy ordeal to go through, Sebela was the richer for it. Her pie contained a $500 cash prize. Proposal calls for two N. Shore fireboats TWO OF four quick-response fireboats proposed for firefighting duty in Burrard Inlet will be based on the North Shore if a recommendation to purchase the vessels is supported by the five municipalities fronting the inlet. The port has been without a fireboat since January 1988, when Vancouver City decided. to decommission its boat. Until 1988, the port had had fireboat protec- tion for 37 years. At the time, both North Van- couver fire chiefs slammed the decision to pull the plug on the boat. Although not directly sup- ported by the North Shore municipalities, the fireboat had been available at an hourly fee. Stationed at the north foot of Dunlevy Avenue in Vancouver, By Michael Becker News Reporter the fireboat was called in to help battle the massive Burrard Termi- nal (now Pioneer) grain elevator fire in October 1975. But the boat was sold for $140,000 and then later resold to San Francisco for $300,000. Meanwhile the price to purchase four new boats, a marine firefighting platform fitted with pumps and the cost to train firefighters to operate the equip- ment is estimated at $2,930,000. The Vancouver Port Corp. would contribute 50 per cent of the start-up costs for the opera- tion. North Vancouver City would cover $35,000, 10.6 per cent of the remaining 50 per cent of capital costs. North Vancouver District, Wednesday. October 3. 1990 - North Shore News - 3 Four injured in scuba dive Woman in serious condition after Whytecliff Point dive goes sour five minutes. Rescue crews found her semi- conscious and began to administer first uid. The CFMI-Coors Lite Silver Bullet power boat, first on scene after picking up the distress call on radio, transported the diving party to ambulances standing by on shore. Said Don Andrews, skipper of the Coast Guard auxiliary vessel, “We happened to be in the right place at the right time.” The four divers were transpor- ted to VGH, all suffering in vary- ing degrees from the bends. a painful condition experienced by divers who surface too quickly. The condition is caused by gas bubbles coming out of the blood inside the blood vessels. The ambulance crew initiated advanced life support procedures on the trip to VGH, where Shore was subsequently given decom- pression evatment. To press time Tuesday, Shore was listed in serious condition at VGH. BC Rail unions so to court over agreement TWO OF seven unions involved in the 25-day BC Rai! strike, which ended Friday night, are threatening to derail the 30-month collective agreement mediated by Industrial Inquiry Commissioner Vince Ready. By Surj Rattan News Reporter On Friday, the Council of Trade Unions, which represents seven unions and 1,700 BC Rail employees, voted 56 per cent in favor of accepting the contract, which provides for a total wage increase of I5 per cent and in- cludes a $600 signing bonus. But Council of Trade Unions chairman Clyde Multhall said Ready had no jurisdiction in in- structing the unions to vote on the agreement. While the Canadian Union of Transportation Employees Local 6, BC Rail’s largest union, voted to accept the contract, the Plumb- ers, Pipefitters and Steamfitiers Union Local 170 and the United Transportation Union voted to re- ject the deal. Qn Tuesday, the two dissenting unions filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court seeking an injunc- tion against the settlement drawn up by Ready. Both unions said they were unhappy with the agreement's contracting-out clause. BC Rail spokesman Barrie Wall said the Crown corporation is aware of the two unions’ court action, but added that the com- pany is not worried about it at this point. “That's something between Clyde Mullhail and the courts. We'll just let it run its course,” said Wall. Meanwhile, BC operations at east of Lonsdale Quay and the other in Indian Arm near Deep Cove. On Monday the two North Vancouver councils dealt with the issue in-camera. Both supported the scheme. Said North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker, ‘‘The only reason it went in-camera is that there was a concern on the part of Fireboat need: see Viewpoint, page ¢ meanwhile, would pay $39,000, or 11.8 per cent, of half of the start-up costs. Two of the $300,000 boats would be based on the North Shore side of the inlet: one just other municipalities that they felt it was something they had to ne- gotiate and be sure it was some- thing their councils understood.” See Report Page § 44 Were pretty well back to normal. 99 — Barrie Wall BC Rail spokesman Rail and other North Vancouver industries are slowly getting back to normal following the strike’s settlement. “We're pretty well back to normal. We ran our first passen- ger train and freight trains on Saturday,” said Wail. Vancouver Wharves president Harry Wood said BC Rail crews spent Saturday removing about 500 empty rail cars from the North Vancouver bulk loading fa- cility. He added that cargo, such as pulp and sulphur, should begin meving through the terminal to- day. Tony Jarrett, president of North Vancouver-based Fibreco Export Inc., which exports wood- chips to Japan from Interior sawmills, said his company lost abou: 2125,000 = week during the strike. 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