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Times Colonist, 9 May 2007

Times Colonist9 May 2007p. 13reader letterJDF SAR era

reader letter. Times Colonist, p. 13, 9 May 2007 ref-only

Summary

A letter from someone involved in or grateful for a rescue on 5 May, who writes of "the relief of hearing a U.S. navy Seahawk" and of the degree of co-ordination such a rescue requires. The letter lists the agencies that took part: the RCMP, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre of Victoria, the Provincial Emergency Program, the Juan de Fuca Ground Search and Rescue, the U.S. navy, the B.C. Ambulance Service, mutual aid search and rescue groups from Metchosin and Victoria, the Canadian Coast Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard in Port Angeles, all of which "rallied to avoid what" [text continues beyond the region read].

Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.

Details

PublicationTimes Colonist
Date9 May 2007
Page13
SectionLetters
Bylinereader letter
EraJDF SAR era
Document typeletter to the editor
SourceProQuest Times Colonist archive (BC ELN)
no external link recorded
Accessed2026-07-15
Licensingref-only
Record confidenceconfirmed

Archivist's note

The most complete list of co-responding agencies anywhere in the archive, and the only document in it that records U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard participation in a Juan de Fuca call. It corroborates the cross-border mutual-aid arrangement that the team's own website (05_documents/jdfsar_website/) describes as extending to Washington State.

The clipping

Scan of Times Colonist, page 13, 9 May 2007 — the catalogued article
The article as printed.

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No external link. No stable public link is recorded for this article. It was read from a page scan obtained through a library database. The full page scan is below.

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Archive notes

Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. This is a letters page and the letter runs under the heading "Rescues without borders". The writer's name at the foot of the letter was not legible in the region read and is not asserted. The nature and location of the 5 May incident are not stated in the legible portion.

Record id 2007-05-09-times-colonist-p13-pep-jdfsar. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2007-05-09_times_colonist_p13_pep_jdfsar.pdf.

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