Sunken ship leaking oil in B.C.'s Nootka Sound

[roddy]

Wrecked cargo ship begins leaking oil 52 years after it sank in B.C.'s Nootka Sound

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...e-shannel-bligh-island-nootka-sound-1.5838352

 

[Nomad Willy]

Notice the detailed covid report below the ship oil article.

“Covid 19 in BC by the numbers”

 

[Lepke]

1000 tons of barley would have made a lot of scotch. A real shame.

 

[Northern Spy]

1000 tons of barley would have made a lot of scotch. A real shame.

As she was bound for Portland, it would have likely ended up a Weinhard beer. Maybe a Lucky Lager if brewed across the river in Vancouver, Wa.

Nothing lucky about that.

 

[soin2la]

Wrecked cargo ship begins leaking oil 52 years after it sank in B.C.'s Nootka Sound

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...e-shannel-bligh-island-nootka-sound-1.5838352

Our coast is a littered with such old bones.

The one I often think about is the four railcars loaded with chlorine that were lost enroute from Howe Sound to Powell River in 1975.

It's believed they are in more than 164 fathoms, off the east side of Texada Island.