{"id":20830,"date":"2015-10-26T01:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/whale-watching-boat-carrying-27-sinks-off-canada\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:54:03","slug":"whale-watching-boat-carrying-27-sinks-off-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/whale-watching-boat-carrying-27-sinks-off-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale-watching boat carrying 27 sinks off Canada&#8217;s British Columbia, killing four people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8730 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sink.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{ {{Four people have been confirmed dead after a whale-watching vessel carrying 27 sank off Canada&#8217;s Pacific coast near Vancouver Island, the Coast Guard says.}} }<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Commander Desmond James of the Coast Guard&#8217;s rescue centre in the provincial capital Victoria said the search for those unaccounted for was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The centre said there were survivors, but Lieutenant Commander James was unable to confirm the number.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were four people recovered without vital signs,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nAccording to local media, 11 people received medical treatment or were hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>A rescue helicopter, maritime surveillance aircraft and three Coast Guard vessels continued the search effort into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, Leviathan II, was travelling off Tofino, a resort town on the western edge of Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-metre three-deck cruise vessel is owned by Jamie&#8217;s Whaling Station and Adventure Centres of Tofino.<\/p>\n<p>An employee who answered the phone said the company was focused on the passengers and crew and would not release information at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ {{Four people have been confirmed dead after a whale-watching vessel carrying 27 sank off Canada&#8217;s Pacific coast near Vancouver Island, the Coast Guard says.}} }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000069832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-20830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000069832,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20830.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000069832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=20830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}