'These boats, they just don't sink, they shouldn't sink': Tugboat sinking is sixth to go down in B.C. waters this year
It’s shaping up to be a disastrous year for B.C.’s tugboat industry with the sinking of its sixth tug Monday, the third lost this month. Clinton Rebeiro, a nautical investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), said the coast guard received word Monday morning that the 18-metre tug Harken 10, destined for Shelter Island Marina and Boatyard in Richmond, had sunk in the Strait of Georgia around 5 a.m. near Sand Heads, north of the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal.