Transportation Safety Board issued safety concerns after investigating into 2021 incident off Vancouver Island
The vast majority of the items in the 109 cargo containers that fell off a ship near Victoria three years ago are still in marine ecosystems or continue to wash up along B.C.'s shores, federal officials said Wednesday, July 31.
"This type of accident is not just a maritime accident, the effects are far reaching and long lasting," said Kathy Fox, the Transportation Safety Board's chair said during a Wednesday news conference in Vancouver."The consequences of such accidents threaten marine ecosystems and endanger vessels and their crews, as well as the health and safety of both Canadians and those beyond our borders.
An estimated 1,490 tonnes of cargo was lost overboard and only around 48 tonnes were recovered in the initial cleanup, TSB's investigation found. The 109 containers flew off the ship after it experienced a kind of rocking from side to side known as parametric rolling, which officials said can only occur to specific kinds of vessels under certain wave conditions. The weather conditions at the time of the incident were not extreme for a vessel of the Zim Kingston's size, TSB officials said.
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