Overview
- Three approximately 70-foot power yachts worth up to a combined $12 million burned and sank at Van Isle Marina on Sunday with no injuries reported.
- About 20 local fire crews, along with RCMP and the Canadian Coast Guard, responded and worked to protect adjacent vessels.
- Western Canada Marine Response is leading pollution cleanup, deploying containment booms, skimmers and absorbents to capture diesel on the water.
- Crews have begun on-water waste recovery and positioned a floating crane to prepare the wrecks for salvage and subsequent inspection.
- Sidney Fire Chief Brett Mikkelsen says there is no evidence of suspicious activity and that a definitive cause is unlikely given the severe damage under roughly seven metres of water.