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Mourners gather at B.C. dock to mourn six lost at sea in fishing charter sinking
About 100 mourners gathered at a Richmond dock as RCMP said four survivors were rescued with hypothermia and no one wore life jackets.
About 100 mourners gathered at the Imperial Landing Dock in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday to commemorate six victims missing and feared drowned after a commercial charter boat capsized in the Strait of Georgia on June 28.
Operated by Top Fishing, the vessel went down in deep water with 10 people aboard; four individuals suffering from hypothermia were rescued, and the RCMP confirmed no one was wearing a life jacket.
Twenty-Three-Year-Old Chen Ming, the boat's captain, is among those lost at sea, while his mother, Ashley Lin, and girlfriend, Hailey Lee, scattered flower petals into the water during the ceremony.
Bob Zhang, a friend of the captain, observed a broken side door while on the same boat in late May, which Lee stated last week flooded the vessel in an incident two days before the sinking.
Conservative MP Chak Au attended the vigil after learning of the tragedy from his son, who participated in the search operation, and Au plans to donate $5,000 to the family of Chen.