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Players from opposing benches watch the action in Wednesday’s Kootenay Ice Intrasquad game, featuring Team White versus Team Black. The Kootenay Ice bode to be a competitive squad this season — see full story Page 8. Barry Coulter photos
Tales from the Traffic The ‘Sailbot’at sea S g t. C h r i s N e w e l Kimberley RCMP
Robotic windcraft’s trans-Atlantic crossing is interrupted; Rudderless ‘Ada’ is adrift
Everybody has a traffic story to tell. Kimberley RCMP routinely conduct traffic enforcement and respond to traffic complaints. Here are a few of their stories. 187 km/h on an N license On August 31, an officer was conducting speed enforcement on highway 93/95 near Wasa when he noted a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. He activated the radar and obtained a speed of 187 in a 100 zone. The driver was charged with Excessive Speed and Failing to Display “N” the vehicle was also impounded for seven days. The Superintendent of Motor Vehicles may also impose a further driving prohibition given he is a New Driver. Cell phone use leads to more Recently an officer spotted a person talking on his cell phone without a seat belt on. The vehicle was stopped and officer quickly learned there was no in-
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Police removed the license plate from this vehicle and ordered it off the road. surance and had the wrong license plate. Why the passenger didn’t take the call is unknown, but the fines for the four charges is well over $1000. That’s an expensive phone call. Unsafe vehicle
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tended to a suspicious vehicle. The occupants were in the process of moving and had a large box secured to the roof with a chain. The vehicle was in very poor conditions and not safe to operate. Police removed the license plate and ordered it off the road.
A solo attempt of the Atlantic Ocean has been cut short for a robotic sailboat after the vessel experienced rudder problems. The 5.5-metre boat — called a ‘sailbot’ due to it’s unmanned design and capabilities — was designed with the help of a Cranbrook student at the University of British Columbia. Building the sailbot was part of a challenge to design a vessel that could traverse the ocean autonomously without any direction from a human operator. Unfortunately, after launching from Newfoundland last week, the vessel — christened Ada by the sailbot team — experienced a rud-
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The robotic sailboat Ada is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, but still pinging its whereabouts. der control failure, likely mechanical in nature, after travelling it roughly 800 kilometres into her trans-Atlantic journey. Neil Dobie, who grew up in Cranbrook and recently graduated with his mechanical engineering degree from UBC, has been involved with the sailbot project since the beginning.
“It drifted aimlessly till last night [Tuesday night] but it’s in some pretty bad weather right now,” said Dobie, “so we think it’s just not facing the right way to get a good connection. “…The rudder failed so we think it might be the gearbox, the servo motor could have stripped, the push rod that moves the teller could’ve bent or got
dislodged, but it hasn’t been able to steer itself for many days now.” The trans-Atlantic attempt was under the banner of the Microtransat Challenge, as no fully autonomous vessel has ever made a crossing of the ocean, despite attempts from European groups and the U.S. Navy.
See ROBOTIC, Page 4