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! WEST VANCOUVER’S Jory Lord works ona sailboat he is building i in Horseshoe Bay which i is a far cry from his sunken boat, -

a 15-metre (50-ft.) classic wooden ketch built in'1939. The ketch was sunk by a foreign submarine in local waters last year. -

‘IVS BEEN rough sailing for West
_ Vancouver resident Jory Lord since a

“Chilean submarine sunk his ship in:

Juan de Fuca Strait last September.

By Anna Marie.D Angelo

_News Reporter

“It's been a rough year.” said, Lord, 27.

“The worst thing, apart from the finances,
is the loss.of my independence, Ive: had to
rely on friends and family.at times.

Lord depended upon his 15-metre‘(50-ft)

ketch, Moonglow, Lord tived on the vessel and

used it’ for commercial kayak expeditions: in

the Queen Charlotte area and near Clayoquot

© Sound.’ Since the collision, has been doing

tugboat work with his dad in Horseshoe Bay.

Lord is awaiting rele:
a ‘Transportation: “Safety, Board of Canada
(TSBC) report on the “marine occurrence.”
The document is due next month, The’report

. will not assign blame for the accident, but will

make safety recommendations.

To date he has ‘received no adimiss
responsibility’ or compensation tor his loss.

Last year on Sept. 11, ili

ase of the final draft of

WV man’s $295,000 boat wrecked in collision

Moonglaw, from a western part of Vancouver
Istand to Victoria through the Juan de Fuca
Strait.

submarine Thomson, in fogyy conditions near
Sheringham Point.

Lord's
sub 20 seconds prior to impact. As his ship
went down Lord radioed the following to the
Canadian Coast Guard:

“Mayday, mayday. mayday. This is sailing
vessel Moonglow. I've been hit by a nuclear
powered submarine. I'm going down.”

“Copy” may day. What is your position?
Over”

“Em four
Over.”

Lights, ridio and the electrical system went

dead on-the sinking ship. Chest high i in water.
Lord stepped on his life raft and boom gallows
to swim away from the vessel. :
*. Lord, wearing a floater jacket, we
clinging to a floating propane tank when the
submarine picked hint up about 15 minute
later,

American naval. personnel wel

miles off Sheringham Point.

Ie was hit by the diesel-powered Chilean

radar picked up the $600-million

s found,
the veteran s

sre aboard the ©

submarine, The sub had been participating in’

inilitary exercises “at Canadian’ Forces -

Maritime ; Experimental and Test Ranges’
(CFMETR): near, Nanoose on Vancouver
Island. :

Other vessels in the. area respanded to
Lord’s mayday.

He has had to deal with three countries in
his bid for redress. Lord has approached Chile,
the United States and Canada along with their
defence departments in his bid to obtain expla-
nations and compensation for the sinking.

Had the Thomson been a civilian vessel, it,
would have had to dock. at nearby Canadian,
port. An investigation would shave ‘begun
imnicdiately after the collision, said Lord.

- Instead the submarine “skulked out of Juan -
de Fuca Strait and down into American WAKETS -
to San Diego.” said Lord,

“Aad there would’ i have been all ‘his time
to try and fabricate this story which is what
they have done,” said Lord.

The TSBC draft report came down hard on
itor who worked for se arch and

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