Keith Carver, left, with rescuer helicopter pilot Wayne Goodridge
Photograph by: Wayne Goodridge
The Vancouver Sun is reporting:
VICTORIA — A shipwrecked American sailor was plucked off the rugged shores of the west coast of Vancouver Island Wednesday ending a five-day wilderness ordeal eating nothing but lichen.
Keith Carver, 56, of Tucson, Ariz., said he doesn’t think he would have lasted much more than one more day had he not been spotted waving his arms to attract the attention of “this beautiful helicopter.”
The complete Vancouver Sun post by Richard Watts is here.
(Ed. note: link via Captain Rande)
Follow Up: Thought you might find this interesting. Mr. Carver was arrested as soon as he left the hospital. Info via the Globe and Mail, here.
(Thanks to Patrick Ryan for this.)
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3/6/10 The Plot Thickens
Vancouver Sun is reporting:
…Lagan said a police investigation revealed Carver would likely have been denied entry into Canada had he gone through the proper border procedures. Since he failed to clear the proper channels, Carver was not deemed to be in Canada legally.
Lagan also expressed suspicions about Carver’s story that storms blew him north until his sailboat sank off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.
“He knew he was in Canadian waters,” said Lagan. “This was not an accident that he blew up all the way from the U.S.-Canada border all the way to the northern tip of Vancouver Island…
The complete Vancouver Sun post by Richard Watts is here.
(Ed. note: Thanks to alert BE reader Don Matt for the link.)
I wonder if “criminal inadmissibility to Canada” has anything to do with drug running. An official with the Canadian Border Services Agency “also expressed suspicions about Carver’s story that storms blew him north until his sailboat sank off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.”
http://www.timescolonist.com/Shipwrecked+held+border+officials/2649273/story.html
Wow. Lagan must be criminal mastermind to figure that if he got caught in a storm and has his boat sink out from under him that he might be able to sneak into Canada after spending five days on a rock eating lichen.
Is there something that i am missing here?
[...] been making the rounds on nautical websites here in the Pacific Northwest, on Three Sheets among others. So far, though, all that has been covered has been the fantastic survival story of Keith Carver, a [...]
What is required of the RCMP other than a streak of sadism? The Vancouver Hospital Doctors cursed them for fools and had me in an ambulance at the Border that Sunday.I personally know of 2 Manitoba citizens living in Mexico, Extremely serious criminals both, without ex wives having signed spurious charges on them 19 years ago as mine did. No NCIC record so the RCMP is’nt interested. The mountie that arrested me could’nt find his ass with both hands. KC