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#5001 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 October 2020 - 02:58 AM

B.C. Ferry Services Inc. breached the collective agreement with its unionized employees when it temporarily laid off more than 1,000 workers in early April due to the pandemic, according to an arbitrator.

 

It is now up to the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers union and the company to come to an agreement for remediation.

 
 


#5002 Mike K.

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Posted 12 October 2020 - 10:45 AM

How long has BCF had their mobile skin running? Itā€™s great. And finally the terminals identify the main city. Before tourists had to figure out what Swartz Bay and Horseshoe Bay meant.
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#5003 JohnsonStBridge

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Posted 13 October 2020 - 08:15 AM

Just a couple weeks ago; they finally recognized the majority of their users were accessing the site on their iPhones... 



#5004 vortoozo

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Posted 13 October 2020 - 11:59 AM

It's not just a skin. Total website redesign. Covered extensively in local media when it switched over on September 22nd.

 

https://www.cheknews...riendly-703494/

https://vancouverisl...bsite-1.5115293

https://www.timescol...site-1.24207821



#5005 kxl

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Posted 13 October 2020 - 01:43 PM

Great! One old thread has a happy ending.
https://vibrantvicto...erries-website/
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#5006 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 27 October 2020 - 05:18 PM

passengers stranded near Tsawwassen due to broken down Queen of Alberni
Passengers who expected to dock at Tsawwassen at 2:45 have been stranded on the water for hours. Due to the "mechanical difficulty" on the Queen of Alberni all of Tuesday's remaining sailings on that ship between Tsaw

#5007 Matt R.

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Posted 28 October 2020 - 12:09 AM

Thatā€™s how I feel when my espresso machine goes down.

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Posted 30 October 2020 - 01:31 PM

The third Island Class battery electric-hybrid vessel launched in Romania. It will arrive at Point Hope Shipyard in Summer 2021 and begin service on the Campbell River ā€“ Quadra Island (Quathiaski Cove) route in late 2021.

 

Launch video: https://www.youtube....?v=5ViB0QLvql4Ā 



#5009 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 October 2020 - 02:08 PM

whacking of the ropes by dozens of men with axes does not seem like the most high tech operation.

#5010 exc911ence

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Posted 30 October 2020 - 02:28 PM

Could be a cultural tradition sort of thing.



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Posted 30 October 2020 - 03:38 PM

It is indeed a ship launching tradition. And if I was allowed to deliver a final report to the client in the same fashion you can bet your bottom dollar I would be. 


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#5012 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 October 2020 - 03:52 PM

It is indeed a ship launching tradition. And if I was allowed to deliver a final report to the client in the same fashion you can bet your bottom dollar I would be. 

 

it's just that I don't see any women, POC, disabled or LGBTQ2+ people helping cut those ropes. 

 

Isn't Romania looking at this contract through an equity lens?  :rtfm:


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#5013 exc911ence

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Posted 30 October 2020 - 05:55 PM

Imagine a world where the right person for the job got the job.........  #ConsiderRomania


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#5014 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 November 2020 - 10:08 AM

 

https://www.timescol...ries-1.24237769


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#5015 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 17 November 2020 - 05:07 AM

7am and 9am are cancelled this morning.



#5016 Mike K.

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Posted 17 November 2020 - 05:55 AM

Yup. Full cancellations thus far due to winds:

šŸ”¹Vancouver (Tsawwassen) - Victoria (Swartz Bay)
07:00 am both directions
09:00 am both directions

šŸ”¹Vancouver (Tsawwassen) - Nanaimo (Duke Point)
05:15 am both directions
07:45 am both directions
10:15 am departing from Tsawwassen
12:45 pm departing from Duke Point

šŸ”¹Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay) - Nanaimo (Departure Bay)
06:15 am both directions
08:25 am both directions

šŸ”¹Vancouver - Southern Gulf Islands
06:20 am departing from Long Harbour
07:10 am departing from Otter Bay
07:45 am departing from Village Bay
08:20 am departing from Sturdies Bay
09:55 am departing from Tsawwassen
11:00 am departing from Sturdies Bay
11:35 am departing from Village Bay
12:10 am departing from Otter Bay

šŸ”¹Comox (Little River) - Powell River (Westview)
06:15 am departing from Comox
08:05 am departing from Powell River
09:55 am departing from Comox
11:55 am departing from Powell River

Customers with reservations on cancelled sailings will be contacted via phone and email to advise of the cancellations and their reservations fees will be fully refunded.

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#5017 Matt R.

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Posted 17 November 2020 - 06:31 AM

Iā€™m expecting the Crofton Vesuvius route to go down too if the wind is as bad as they say itā€™s going to be which means only one way off SSI this morning, and me working the breakfast line...

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#5018 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 17 November 2020 - 06:34 AM

Iā€™m expecting the Crofton Vesuvius route to go down too if the wind is as bad as they say itā€™s going to be which means only one way off SSI this morning, and me working the breakfast line...

Matt.

 

how long does it take to cook a 45lb. dog - medium rare - by campfire?  matt?



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Posted 01 December 2020 - 03:27 PM

One person has been seriously injured after a vehicle went off a loading ramp at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, plunging approximately 30 feet to the pavement below.

 

The incident occurred just after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, during what a B.C. Ferries spokesperson called a ā€œroutine dischargeā€ of a Nanaimo-to-Tsawwassen sailing.

 

 

yikes.

 

https://www.timescol...inal-1.24248776

 

accident.jpg

 

i'm not even sure how you get to a position where you can fall from a ramp to the pavement.  i thought all permanent ramps were hard fixed to the moving ramps to the boats.

 

 

https://www.google.c...=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

 

although there seems to be lots of broken concrete there.  maybe they just broke right through the wall somehow.

 

 

 

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/tZFxLpj74Dg

 

^ that is what leaving the ferry at Tsawwassen normally looks like.


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#5020 Mike K.

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Posted 01 December 2020 - 03:50 PM

From the link above: ā€œThe last vehicle to be unloaded off the upper car deck drove off the ship, accelerated rapidly and smashed through a concrete wall,ā€ said B.C. Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall. ā€œThe vehicle fell approximately 30 feet to the lower holding compound of the terminal, landing on its roof. ā€

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