This is two tales in one.
Although it turned out (luckily) ok, it should never have happened and news people should be shot with balls of their own BS.
Why should it have never happened?
Tad Roberts can likely fill us in on the boat, but..
It's 0200 and though a near full moon, probably not great visibility.
We have an 8 knot (my guess) boat travelling in an area of narrow passages with converging currents. At 0200 on Oct 28, it would have been at, or near, full flood where the current can and often does, run to 8 knots. He would have been going with the flood.
You decide.
Why do I say bad news?
When a story like this is done after the fact, they rely on file footage and just make it up as they go along to create a sexy story.
I can see a couple of newsies, sitting in some studio in Vancouver. They're looking at a "map" where they see "Desolation Sound" (yeah, that's a name well known and familiar to viewers) and "Hole in the Wall" (oooooh, scary). This gives them something that helps ratings and makes advertisers happy.
So, if the vessel was travelling "between Sonora and Stuart Island," which makes sense, it is about 25 NM from Desolation Sound. If it is headed "to Vancouver," which again makes sense, it is nowhere near Hole in the Wall, much less "in Hole in the Wall Channel." If he floated past the "luxury resort" shown, that would have been Sonora Lodge which, like I said is not in Hole in the Wall or near Desolation Sound. Bad news.
The boat:
http://blog.tadroberts.ca/2013/03/the-oliver-clark-ii/
The News
Floating gas cans helped BC man survive whirlpools, night overboard
The news link is slow and if it doesn't work try this
https://www.google.ca/search?site=&....4.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..1.3.354.0.2NPStlq-VTs
The real deal
https://youtu.be/MT6QhJ5RPiw
Although it turned out (luckily) ok, it should never have happened and news people should be shot with balls of their own BS.
Why should it have never happened?
Tad Roberts can likely fill us in on the boat, but..
It's 0200 and though a near full moon, probably not great visibility.
We have an 8 knot (my guess) boat travelling in an area of narrow passages with converging currents. At 0200 on Oct 28, it would have been at, or near, full flood where the current can and often does, run to 8 knots. He would have been going with the flood.
You decide.
Why do I say bad news?
When a story like this is done after the fact, they rely on file footage and just make it up as they go along to create a sexy story.
I can see a couple of newsies, sitting in some studio in Vancouver. They're looking at a "map" where they see "Desolation Sound" (yeah, that's a name well known and familiar to viewers) and "Hole in the Wall" (oooooh, scary). This gives them something that helps ratings and makes advertisers happy.
So, if the vessel was travelling "between Sonora and Stuart Island," which makes sense, it is about 25 NM from Desolation Sound. If it is headed "to Vancouver," which again makes sense, it is nowhere near Hole in the Wall, much less "in Hole in the Wall Channel." If he floated past the "luxury resort" shown, that would have been Sonora Lodge which, like I said is not in Hole in the Wall or near Desolation Sound. Bad news.
The boat:
http://blog.tadroberts.ca/2013/03/the-oliver-clark-ii/
The News
Floating gas cans helped BC man survive whirlpools, night overboard
The news link is slow and if it doesn't work try this
https://www.google.ca/search?site=&....4.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..1.3.354.0.2NPStlq-VTs
The real deal
https://youtu.be/MT6QhJ5RPiw
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