Grant Brandson: 'It is time to take immediate action to take effective measures for those experiencing a mental health crisis.'
Grant Brandson’s first thought was that someone dumped a pile of garbage in the False Creek waterway under the Granville Bridge.But when he steered his boat closer to the unidentified object, he realized it was a person.“I immediately went from anger to horror,” said Brandson, who had passengers on board, including children, on what he described as a gorgeous day last August.
At the same time, he said, there is the other side of tragedy and the untold effect it had on witnesses, including himself, who was traumatized from the incident. The bridge was one of five the BC Coroners Service annual report identified in 2008 as needing to be retrofitted with a barrier to prevent suicides. The Burrard, Lions Gate, Ironworkers and Pattullo bridges were the others.
Brandson got almost the identical response when he wrote a letter to Mayor Ken Sim and councillors last year about the incident in August 2023. In that letter, he shared that a woman had also jumped from the bridge and landed in a children’s play area.
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