Officials are determined to not only find out what is inside but recover shipping containers that fell from the MV Zim Kingston cargo vessel earlier this week.
MV Zim Kingston lost 40 shipping containers about 12 nautical miles off the west coast of Vancouver Island, near Bamfield, during rough seas Friday morning.
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The 13-year-old Malta-flagged vessel was on its way to Vancouver from Busan, South Korea when the incident took place, forcing it to anchor at Constance Bank where it later caught fire.
Since the containers fell overboard, the Canadian Coast Guard along with other federal agencies have been monitoring and tracking them, with overflight observations regularly being conducted by Transport Canada’s National Air Surveillance program.
JJ Brickett, a federal incident commander and spokesperson with the Canadian Coast Guard, said during a virtual media press conference Sunday afternoon that the containers are somewhere between 20 to 27 nautical miles offshore.
“We had a report confirming those locations by a ship earlier today,” he said.
