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BC Ferry Covid-19 Update

BC Ferries Prohibits Non-Essential Travel

Following new provincial restrictions prohibiting non-essential travel between health regions, BC Ferries has taken action to support the new rules.

Effective immediately and through 25 May, BC Ferries will deny travel to customers travelling for non-essential reasons. 
Travellers will be asked if their travel is essential, and will be denied if that travel does not fall within the provincial exemptions.

BC Ferries supports doing everything possible to discourage non-essential travel and will rely on the appropriate jurisdictional authorities for assistance with enforcement.

Routes the BCF staff will be monitoring for non-essential travel include

  • Tsawwassen – Swartz Bay
  • Tsawwassen – Duke Point
  • Tsawwassen – Southern Gulf Islands
  • Horseshoe Bay – Departure Bay
  • Comox – Powell River
  • Port Hardy – Prince Rupert

Frigid Water Rescue

Rescue by Vancouver Bound BC Ferry

The BC Ferry crew  on the Thursday evenings Queen of Surrey sailing from Nanaimo on Vancouver Island quickly launched a rescue boat and brought a passenger overboard safely back onto the ferry.
The ferry then returned to Nanaimo where the passenger  was transferred into the care of waiting B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics.

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