Less than an hour after midnight around 1240 am police received a call from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria saying that an emergency beacon had been activated by a tugboat in the Gardner Canal south of Kitimat according to a news release from Kitimat.

Tugboat kitimat. A company tugboat went missing in the Garner Canal area south and east of Kitimat. The tugboat was towing a barge loaded with cargo and supplies for a tunnel drilling. The vessel is en route to the port of Kitimat and expected to arrive there on Aug 7 0800.

The vessel was approximately 35 nautical miles south of the town of Kitimat operating on the Gardner Canal. 9658276 MMSI 316041318 is a Tug built in 2012 7 years old and currently sailing under the flag of Canada. According to Mounties the tug was towing the barge from Kitimat to Kemano when it went missing.

We look at everything. - Two men are dead and one man has been rescued after a tugboat incident on British Columbias north coast. The Transportation Safety Board is now expanding an investigation into the deadly sinking of the tugboat Ingenika near Kitimat BC last month.

Thursday the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre received an emergency beacon from a tugboat in the Gardner Canal near Kemano about 75 kilometres southeast of Kitimat. VANCOUVER -- Two men are dead after a tugboat incident south of Kitimat police in the area confirmed Thursday afternoon. Conditions at the time were reported as very windy.

Two men are dead after an incident involving a tugboat near Kitimat BC according to the RCMP. And thankfully we have a survivor he told CBC News. The Royal Canadian Marine Search Andres Rescue Crew in Kitimat British Columbia was called in at 1145 pm to look for the missing tugboat.

Conditions at the time were reported as very windy. VANCOUVER -- Two men are dead after a tugboat incident south of Kitimat police in the area confirmed Thursday afternoon. Two people were killed and a third rescued after a tugboat went missing on the north coast of British Columbia on Wednesday night.