Robert Cole, Kelly Lance, John Mahaffy, and David Murphy among more than a dozen British Columbians to receive lifesaving awards.
Four Port Alberni men who showed “remarkable bravery and teamwork” are among those receiving awards from the Lifesaving Society B.C. and Yukon Branch in March.
Lance then rescued a second teen who had shed some heavy clothes but was still struggling. It was then that they learned there had been three teens in the canoe. Meanwhile, another area resident, David Murphy, who had been fishing nearby, used his fishing expertise and equipment to pinpoint the location where the canoe had flipped and the water depth, and gave the information to Alberni Valley Search and Rescue.Cole is now advocating for Sproat Lake Marine Patrol’s life-jacket loaner program to be available year-round to the public in hopes it will prevent more tragedies, the society said.
They pulled the castaway aboard and discovered the American had been missing for two weeks since setting out on a three-day trip from Westport, Washington. After feeding the famished man, who had run out of rations on the life-raft, they transferred him to the Canadian Coast Guard, which took him to the hospital in Tofino before he returned home to California.
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