Man rescued after 4 hours in water

The Strait of Georgia is between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, and the extreme northwestern mainland coast of Washington, United States. It is remote waters in which the captain of a sailing vessel was rescued by the Canadian Coast Guard on Monday, July 29, after spending over four hours in the waters of Hernando Channel.

The rescue came after the Canadian Coast Guard’s Marine Communications and Traffic Services received a report on Monday at 1:00 pm of a 42-foot sailing vessel on the rocks near Cortes Bay on Cortes Island, apparently unoccupied. An investigation confirmed that the vessel appeared to have been recently occupied but the captain was missing. – Full report