VICTORIA – The BC Coroners Service says three men who died when their fishing boat sank off British Columbia’s coast lived on central Vancouver Island.
Fifty-five-year-old Wesley Hagglund was the skipper of the Caledonian, and a resident of Duncan.
His engineer and deckhand were both from Port Alberni and have been identified as 48-year-old Keith Standing and 41-year-old Doug White.
Their 33-metre dragger was about 55 kilometres west of Estevan Point, north of Tofino, when it capsized and sank.
The coroner says the bodies were recovered over 18 hours, and a surviving fourth crew member was rescued by the coast guard and taken to hospital.
The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre has said the crew was hauling in nets when the ship listed, capsized and sank on Saturday.
An online fundraiser has been set up for the families of the three men who lost their lives.
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