I’m sitting here at The Wilder Snail writing on deadline for The WE, but I just got sidetracked by a customer’s riveting story about his great grandfather, R.B Young, who was a captain in the Coast Guard in the 1950’s. In 1958, the task of blowing up Ripple Rock, a navigation menace and shipwreck magnet in Seymour Narrows off Campbell River, fell to him. And so…boom.
Moral: working in cafes can be informative.
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The CBC’s got a great live-time video report on the same event available from their archives web site:
http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/04/05/
I love the bit pointing out the long lens on their camera, which “will pretty much put River Rock right smack in the middle of your living room when it goes up or out or whatever.”
Also: “I don’t know about you, Ted, but I’m really tense right now. Thirty seconds. 25. 20. 15…”