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N. Van-based Pacific Marine Training Institute joins BCIT

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Pacific Marine Training Institute (PMTI) will offi- cially merge with Burnaby’s British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) on Oct.1.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter

The merger was announced Monday after the provincial gov- ernment acted on a review of PMTI that determined the facility had a “relatively very-high cost of opera- tion for each full-time equivalent” student.

Said PMTI board chairman Capt. Ed Monteiro, “There was no loss of confidence in PMTI, it (the decision) was purely for financial reasons.”

in the PMTI review, consultant Keith Saddlemyer ruled out merg- ing the facility with a university

because vocational PMT! instruc- tion “does not fit well into an acad- emic environment.”

Capilano CoHege, the report stated, met a number of conditions to support PMTI’s best interests in the future, but the college's “responsibility to its community and limited experience and resources dedicated to vocational training would require a significant investment in time and resources.”

Capilano College president Doug Jardine said he was disap- pointed with the decision: “I think it's. a lost opportunity for the people of the North Shore.”

He said the college’s merger proposal included discussions of expanding marine training to include a degree in nautical sci- ences.

ft also discussed the possibility of including PMTI marine-related courses with college programs related to business in Pacific Rim countries.

Mothballed catamarans set to return to Norway

THE THREE sleek catama- rans awaiting their fate at the Allied Shipbuilders yard just east of the Second Narrows Bridge are going home.

By Reg Spillman

Contributing Writer

The catamarans had served as the foot-passenger ferries for Canadian Fast Ferry Corp.'s Vancouver to Nanaimo and Vietoria harbor-to-harbor ferry ser- vice.

On Monday lifting tackle was installed on all three vessels in preparation for loading as deck freight on the Petrol Arrow.

The Arrow was scheduled to arrive at the Lynnterm loading wharf in North Vancouver on Saturday, where she was to take on a cargo of lumber and pulpwood before loading the three “cats.”

The ferries are owned by Kaverner Fjellstrand Shipping of Norway.

The ships will be towed from their storage berths on Tuesday and hoisted aboard the freighter for the tong trip home to Norway.

The vessels have been in storage since Canadian Fast Ferry Corp.. which had been operating at a loss, went out of business in September 1993,

Numerous attempts to find a local buyer for the three vessels failed.

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