ren aes Al2 - Wednesday, February 24, 1982 - North Shore News DEEP COVE EXERCISE f ©. 7 Drownings By CHRIS LLOYD TWO of the “missing . were persons presumed “drowned” Shore but North Rescue Coordinator Jeff Jefferd considers the large scale rescue exercise held Sunday to have been a _ great SUCCESS. The exercise, coordinated from the government wharf at Deep Cove, involved about 20 members of the volunteer rescue team, Coast Guard and Auxilliary Coast Guard personnel and RCMP. In all, the operation included about 50 people. It was the first time North Shore Rescue had held an exercise in conjunction with the Coast Guard and Jefferd said the purpose was to iron out wrinkles in the com- munication system between the two groups which had emerged during last year's rescues at M_ Creek and Strachan Creek on the Squamish Highway. Jefferd considers. the exercise accomplished the communication objective. The scenario he _ had created was of a four-man dinghy capsizing in the middle of Indian Arm. The alarm was raised when one of the “victims” of the in- cident called the RCMP from Deep Cove, after supposedly having swum to the Woodlands area. The situation he outlined, fail to dampen rescue success which was the basis for Starting the search exercise, was that he had swum towards Deep Cove with another man from the dinghy, who had sunk beneath the water on the way to shore. A third man had swum towards the east shore of Indian Arm, while the last had been seen hanging on to the capsized dinghy. A dozen or so members of North Shore Rescue were ferried to the south Side of Indian Arm by a Coast Guard hovercraft. ~ On the shore they found a lifeyacket and scoured the thickly wooded area for the lost “victim”. He had hiked through a desolate area and the rescue crew found him stranded on a ledge. They lowered him over a cliff by stretcher and the team members rappelled down the 100 feet to the hovercraft with the “patient”, who was treated on board for hypothermia. Meanwhile, the Auxilliary Coast Guard team located the upturned dinghy and a life jacket, reaching the conclusion that the fourth person aboard, who had clung on while the others swam ashore, was “dead”. Other members of North Shore Rescue in diving gear checked the area where the first “survivor” had reported his companion disappearing below the water as they had swum towards shore. According to the scenario, it had been intended the divers would recover the “person” - a dummy weighted down - but the weights were heavier than intended and had dragged the dummy to a depth where it could not be found It was assumed that he had also drowned. Nevertheless. coordinator Jefferd declared the exercise a success and said “We were really amazed that things ITS A LONG. way down, especially when you're having to steady a stretcher while you go. Volumieer members of the North Shore Rescue team had _ to carefully make their way down a 100 ft. cliff after finding dinghy accident “victim” stuck on ledge in thickly wooded area on the south side of Indian Arm inlet. (lan Smith photo) turned out so well.” As it happened, the exercise had almost got started a day earlier than scheduled. Coincidentally, while Jefferd had been preparing the scene the previous day, a report came through that a dinghy had overturned in Indian Arm. Authorities thought there was confusion about the activities scheduled for the following day but found that a dinghy had actually capsized and they rescued a man suffenng from hypothermia PACKAGED OFFICES e Large, private offices ¢« Quiet. 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