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TRAGIC DAY: The body of a man who drowned in Burrard Inlet is carried aboard a Coast Guard vessel on March 28. (Bottom right) The boat the man was using while crab fishing.
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Man drowns while fishing on Burrard Inlet Cornelia Naylor
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The Coast Guard pulled a man’s body from the Burrard Inlet off Burnaby’s Barnet Marine Park on March 28. Witnesses at the scene said the man had been crab fishing from a small plastic boat when it got away from him. A woman who jumped
into the water trying to save the man said the boat had been right beside him when she first spotted him, but the current and wind soon moved it out of his reach. “We heard him calling for help. I tried to swim out to him,” she told the NOW. “I left my pants on, and it was so hard to swim, and I had to turn back, and then he went under. It’s terrible.” The North Delta woman,
who did not want her name published, said a man had stripped down and swum all the way out to two buoys where the man had gone under but couldn’t locate him and turned back. Burnaby RCMP got the call at 2:15 p.m. and responded, along with three Coast Guard vessels, ambulance, the Burnaby Fire Department and the Vancouver Police Marine Unit, accord-
ing to an RCMP press release.The man was located by a Coast Guard diver and pulled from the water. “It is early in the investigation, but at this time the incident appears to have been a tragic accident and foul play is not suspected,” said a police press release. The coroner said the man was in his mid-60s. See the related story on Page 3.