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Mishaps mar
first fast
ferry launch

Worker hurt; vessel collides with tug

Robert Galster
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

TWO accidents marred last Sunday’s successful
launch of the first fast ferry from the Catamaran
Ferries International North Vancouver assembly
facility.

A Vancouver Drydock employee working aboard the drydock that was car
fier submerged, effectively aunching dre 400-root aluminum vessel, was
rushed to Vancouver Hospital atter bis forklift: flipped. The man’s leg was
crushed under die machine and resulted in doctors later emputaunyg it berweer,
the knee and ankle.

“It was really unfortunate,” said) Marine Workers and Boilermakers
Industrial Union president George MacPherson of the [h45 p.m. incident.
“They were just finishing up. Just getting ready to zo homie.

The man, whose name was noe released, was a scasuned veteran of the
waterfront.

“Financially he'll be fine but it’s a very unfortunate way for him te go into
retirement,” facPherson. “He wasn't that far away

Meanwhile the ship of the moment, the Pacificat, aiso did not escape its
own launch unscathed. Shortly after the ship floated free of the drydock to
loud landlocked cheers, the vessel was involved in a sminor collision.

“One of the tugs was caught beuween the ship and the berth,” evplained
B.C, Ferries spokesman Clav Suddaby. “it shouidn’t have been there.”

He added the tug tried to get out of the way but was unabic to.

“(The captain) spun the stern of the tug inte the bow of the ferry and steel
met Juminum and steel won,” sa iddaby.

The mishap resulted in minor cosmetic damage to the just floated Paciticat.
The damage has since been appraised at under $10,000. ‘The $86 million ves-
sel did not sustain any structural damage. Suddaby added that the accident was
agood test for the fast ferry and should help dispel doubts surrounding its abil-
ity to withstand collisions with driftwood once it begins service between
Horseshoe Bay and Nanaitao sometime after Labor |

“Ir sustained a collision with a large tug boat made of steel, ”

“You can imagine what it will do to a picce of wood -
chops

Seaspan International spokesman Debbie Tardiff oftered a slightly d
assessment of the mishap: “The ferry hit one of our tugs.”

She adding it was a minor incident that constituted “scuff marks.”

“These things happen all the time,” said Vardit¥

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