On 03 July 2025, the general cargo vessel Kathy McKeil was approaching the Superior Elevator dock in Thunder Bay, Ontario. During mooring operations, a crew member was being transferred to the dock using a landing boom—an apparatus designed to transfer personnel from the vessel to shore. During the transfer, the crew member handling the landing rope lost his grip, causing the other crew member to fall into the water.
On 05 June 2025, a master and a deckhand boarded a small aluminum skiff from shore and proceeded toward the landing craft Duu Guusd, which was anchored approximately 30 m offshore near Langara Island, British Columbia.
On July 23, 2025, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) launched a safety issue investigation (SII) (M24A0348) into shipboard fires on commercial vessels and the effectiveness of emergency response in Canada.
Unlike individual occurrence investigations, an SII is broad in scope, involving an in-depth review of multiple occurrences and consulations with key industry stakeholders.
On July 23, 2025, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) launched a safety issue investigation (SII) (M24A0348) into shipboard fires on commercial vessels and the effectiveness of emergency response in Canada.
Unlike individual occurrence investigations, an SII is broad in scope, involving an in-depth review of multiple occurrences and consulations with key industry stakeholders.
All responses are those of the stakeholders to the TSB in written communications and are reproduced in full. The TSB corrects typographical errors and accessibility issues in the material it reproduces without indication, but it uses brackets [ ] to show other changes or to show that part of the response was omitted because it was not pertinent.
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On July 22, 2022, a fire broke out in the engine room of the Holiday Island after a non-standard temporary repair made to the ferry’s fuel injection system failed and caused fuel to spray onto hot engine components and ignite. All passengers and non-essential crew members were safely evacuated, and a large-scale emergency response followed. Despite efforts from responders, the fire could not be extinguished, and the vessel was eventually abandoned.
Investigations conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are complex since an accident rarely results from a single cause. In the case of the July 2022 engine room fire of the passenger ferry Holiday Island, near Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island, several factors led to the accident.
