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Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 20

In the January article we announced that Unit 20 had purchased a new high-speed response vessel.  As a reminder the vessel, as shown in the photograph, is a Titan 249 XL tee top and provides significantly more rescue capability with its higher speed and larger size.  We have utilized the new vessel for a number of rescue missions and it performs very much as we had expected.  The Unit is proud of its new vessel and we want to let everyone share in th...

Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 20

In last month’s article I described a vessel that went aground on a submerged reef near Georgeson Island.  We were tasked to this incident and stood by for the rising tide to lift the vessel free.  Why, you might ask, didn’t we tow the vessel off the reef?  There are several answers to this question primary among them is that the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) did not authorize us to do so.  All of our taskings are coordinated through th...

Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 20

What a grand day thought the skipper.  The weather was so clear that looking to the north across the rippled seas of Georgia Straits he could see the saw-toothed outline of the mountains north of Vancouver glistening whitely against the azure sky.  He and his two buddies had left the lower mainland early that morning in his 30 foot sail boat and had spent that sunny April day sailing around Mayne Island heaving-to only to pull up the crab traps that ...