Five British nationals enjoying whale watching were killed when their boat capsized. The waters the boat was sailing through was exposed to incoming bad weather.
"Fishermen who were working in the area at the time of the accident – and who led the subsequent rescue mission – said they had chosen to avoid that stretch of water that day because they knew it was 'too dangerous'." “We stayed away from the reef because we knew the weather was going to blow up. The waves were bigger and the wind had picked up,” said Ken Brown, who, along with his boating partner, was the first to reach the sinking vessel.
The Boat , The Leviathan II capsized after sailing near a rocky outcrop, so that the tourists on board could observe a group of sea lions.
The whale-watching boat capsized in the waters northwest of Tofino, British Columbia, Canada Photo: Rick Collins
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