B.C. sailors tell of harrowing choices in rescue of charter sinking survivors
Brian Angus and Dorothy Stauffer used a dinghy to pull three hypothermic survivors from rough seas after the charter vessel sank, police said.
- On Sunday, June 28, 2026, two British Columbia sailors rescued three survivors from a charter boat that sank in the Strait of Georgia, leaving six other passengers presumed drowned.
- The 10-person charter vessel, an aluminum KingFisher, sank near Roberts Bank after being struck by waves. According to Sing Tao, the 23-year-old captain had no time to send a distress signal.
- Former Air Canada pilot Brian Angus and flight attendant Dorothy Stauffer used their dinghy as a makeshift raft, trailed on a 50-foot line, to save the trio while making the harrowing choice to leave two others behind.
- A Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, the Siyay, arrived as the final survivor reached the dinghy, bringing the total rescued to four while six remain presumed drowned.
- With four men and two women missing, the rescue operation has shifted into a recovery effort. Stauffer noted that saving the three people was the best they could do given the conditions.
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BC Sailors Tell of Harrowing Choices in Rescue of Charter Sinking Survivors
Brian Angus and Dorothy Stauffer set out from Vancouver’s Coal Harbour on Sunday morning to embark on their annual months-long sailing trip aboard their 33-foot yacht Malaika. But within hours they were undertaking a harrowing rescue of survivors from a fishing charter boat that sank in the Strait of Georgia, leaving six missing and presumed drowned. The toll might have been higher except for the efforts of the married couple, who have been sail…
B.C. sailors tell of harrowing choices in rescue of charter sinking survivors – Energeticcity.ca
Survivors of the sinking of a fishing charter boat in the Strait of Georgia are seen in an inflatable dinghy being helped by Coast Guard officers on Sunday, June 28, 2026, in this photo taken by sailor Dorothy Stauffer, who helped rescue them. Six people are missing and presumed drowned in the sinking, while four people were saved. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout-Dorothy Stauffer(Mandatory Credit) Brian Angus and Dorothy Stauffer set out from Vancouv…
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B.C. sailors tell of harrowing choices in rescue of charter sinking survivors
PORT BROWNING HARBOUR, B.C. - Two British Columbia sailors who rescued survivors of Sunday's charter boat sinking that claimed six lives in the Strait of Georgia have told of the
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