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United flight from LAX to Vancouver makes emergency landing over alleged bomb threat: report – Fox Business
- United flight from LAX to Vancouver makes emergency landing over alleged bomb threat: report Fox Business
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Elon Musk stayed up playing video games in a Vancouver hotel until 5:30 a.m. after he offered to buy Twitter, because he was in ‘stress mode’ – Yahoo Finance
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Zac Brown Band cancels Vancouver show after Canada denies entry
The Zac Brown Band was not destined for Colder Weather.
Despite performing in Canada for more than a decade, including twice this year, the Grammy-award-winning band was denied entry into the country on Thursday night.
“Each time we’ve come to Canada, we have been at the mercy of a single border agent who decides who is allowed in to work,” lead singer Zac Brown wrote on Facebook. “Unfortunately, not everyone was able to make it in the country last night.”
Brown revealed some members of the crew had charges on their record from more than 10 years ago which led a Canadian border patrol agent to stop the group.
The band was scheduled to play at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Friday night.
Rogers Arena said the show was canceled due to “unforeseen logistical issues,” according to its website. The venue refunded all ticketholders following the abrupt cancellation.
While the band likely would have been able to continue with their scheduled show in the Candian seaport, it chose to honor its relationships and put Canada in its rearview mirror for the “Out In The Middle Tour.”
“We are a family, a tribe,” Brown said. “We stick together and support each other and we never leave anyone behind.”
The country music troupe will have a rapid turnaround and play in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night.
The tour began on April 22 and will run until November 19, originally consisting of stops in 31 cities in 22 states and provinces.
After performing in Portland, Zac Brown Band will finish up its West Coast trip with gigs in Los Angeles, Oakland, California, and Phoenix.
“As a band who prides themselves on showing up with excitement and professionalism, we will always play where we are welcome and appreciated, and we’re so sorry we can’t be there tonight,” Brown wrote.
Gangster Maninder Dhaliwal, friend killed in shootout in Canada’s Vancouver : The Tribune India
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Chandigarh, July 25
A shootout as a result of a gang war in Canada’s Vancouver left gangster Maninder Dhaliwal and friend Satinder Gill dead, according to a report in Vancouver Sun.
According to the report, the deceased belonged to the “Brothers Keepers” gang.
The report said, “At the time of shooting near Sundial Hotel in the heart of Whistler village in Vancouver, gangster Maninder Dhaliwal, 29, was accompanied by friend Satinder Gill, who was not involved in the gang.”
Dhaliwal died on the spot, while Gill succumbed to his injuries at a health centre.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed late on Sunday that the shooting was linked to the ongoing Lower Mainland gang conflict.
“Sea-to-Sky Royal Canadian Mounted Police were able to locate and apprehend multiple individuals,” Sergeant Timothy Pierotti said, adding that a burning vehicle found afterwards in the 3300-block of Ptarmigan Place was linked to the murders.
The incident comes 10 days after an eerily similar killing of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who had been acquitted of charges of bombing an Air India plane.
The two latest victims were shot in broad daylight while sitting in a car in a public place like Ripudaman Malik and as in that incident, a car was also found burning nearby, according to media reports.
The two incidents, however, have not been linked by officials.
Two persons who have not been publicly identified have been arrested in connection with the latest killings, CTV reported quoting officials.
But there have been no arrests as yet in the killing of Malik.
Dhaliwal, along with his brother Barinder, was on a list of six men, four of them of Indian descent, released last year by the Vancouver Police Department which called them “gangsters” who “pose a significant risk to the safety of the public”.
Police Chief Adam Palmer warned while releasing their pictures, “Our police intelligence leads us to believe that the individuals we have identified today may be targeted by rival gang members.”
Dhaliwal was a member of a gang known as “Brothers Keeper” (BK), while Gill was not known to be involved with gangs, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Dhaliwal’s brother was killed last year in April, the newspaper’s website said.
CTV said that the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) confirmed Dhaliwal and Gill had been targeted and the shooting was linked to an ongoing gang conflict in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland region that includes Vancouver.
The Sun said the BK has been involved in violent conflicts over the years with the gang known as “United Nations” and with some members of “Red Scorpions”.
It said last year Dhaliwal’s brother Harb was killed outside a Vancouver restaurant when he was with him and Barinder.
Maninder chased the gunman, Francoise Gauthier, and stabbed him in the eye, but did not face charges, it added.
Gauthier admitted last month in a Canadian court to carrying out the murder and was sentenced to life in prison, the Sun reported.
It said that both Maninder and Barinder had been shot several times in the past. (With IANS inputs)
Record-Breaking Rogue Wave Detected Off Vancouver Island | Smart News
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A wave the height of a four-story building was recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island, and scientists say it’s “the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.” The 58-foot-tall giant, which appeared off the coast of Ucluelet, British Columbia, on November 17, 2020, is described in the journal Scientific Reports.
“Only a few rogue waves in high sea states have been observed directly, and nothing of this magnitude,” lead author Johannes Gemmrich, an oceanographer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, says in the statement. “The probability of such an event occurring is once in 1,300 years.”
Rogue waves are massive walls of water more than double the height of other waves occurring around them. They appear in the open ocean often without warning or apparent cause. “They look like a large four-story lump sticking out of the water with a large peak and big troughs before it,” Scott Beatty, CEO of the company MarineLabs which measured the wave, tells CNN’s Caitlin Kaiser and Tom Sater. These unpredictable swells are distinct from tsunamis, which are caused by the sudden displacement of water linked to another event, like an earthquake.
A simulation of the rogue wave measured on November 17, 2020. MarineLabs/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/80/16/80166e93-eb38-4d1e-91bb-2484c42cf3aa/om3bjbamdufhp4rjxzlazj.png)
The first rogue wave ever detected appeared off the coast of Norway in 1995 and measured 84 feet (25.6 meters) high, making it taller than the wave recorded in Ucluelet, according to George Dvorsky for Gizmodo. The Ucluelet wave was a record-breaker because it towered three times as tall as the surrounding waves, while the wave near Norway was just over twice as tall.
For centuries, rogue waves were part of marine folklore, and have only been accepted as legitimate by scientists in the past few decades. Due to their size and force, they can be a serious threat to ships and coastal communities. “They are unexpected, so the vessel operator has little warning. If it is high enough that it can cause some damage to the vessel, the operator has no time to change course or react to it.” Gemmrich tells CNN.
In 1997, a rogue wave toppled a cargo ship, dumping some five million Legos into the sea, which have been washing ashore since. The wave off the coast of Vancouver Island was far enough from shore that no damages have been reported.
Because the waves are rare, researchers still don’t know why or how rogue waves form but suspect they arise when ocean swells, winds and currents collide and reinforce each other to produce massive walls of water.
As tools for monitoring rogue waves improve, scientists are optimistic they’ll learn more about the mysterious phenomenon. The Ucluelet wave was picked up by one of the 26 sensor buoys placed by MarineLabs Data Systems along coastlines and oceans around North America. The company has said it plans to more than double its number of sensor locations by this year’s end.
The intensity and frequency of rogue waves could be exacerbated by climate change, Harry Baker reports for Live Science. A study published in June 2020 estimates that extreme wave conditions have already increased by between 5 and 15 percent due to stronger gusts and currents from warming waters.
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Record-Breaking 58-Foot Rogue Wave Detected Off Vancouver Island
A 58-foot-tall wall of water that appeared off Vancouver Island in 2020 is among the largest rogue waves ever recorded, and it’s the very largest in terms of its proportion to surrounding waves, according to scientists.
New research in Scientific Reports describes the gigantic wave, which appeared off the coast of Ucluelet, British Columbia, on November 17, 2020. The rogue wave reached 58 feet tall (17.6 meters)—a height equal to a four-story building.
“Proportionally, the Ucluelet wave is likely the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded,” Johannes Gemmrich, the first author of the study and a research physicist at the University of Victoria, said in a statement. He added that the “probability of such an event occurring is once in 1,300 years.”
The size of this wave is downright terrifying and further evidence that suddenly appearing towers of water are more than just mariners’ tales. Rogue waves are like normal waves, except they’re more than twice the height of surrounding waves. Despite names like “freak waves” and “killer waves,” these swells are normal oceanic phenomena, though their cause remains poorly understood. They’re likely churned into existence by a variety of factors, such as wind speed, wind direction, water depth, and characteristics having to do with the seafloor. Rogue waves are not to be confused with tsunamis, which tend to be generated by massive displacements of water due to earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions.
“Only a few rogue waves in high sea states have been observed directly, but they can pose a danger to marine operations, onshore and offshore structures, and beachgoers,” the scientists write in their study. No doubt, the unpredictable nature and power of these mountain-like waves make them especially perilous.
The first rogue wave was detected off the coast of Norway on New Year’s Day in 1995 and given the name “Draupner.” It measured 84 feet (25.6 meters) high, making it taller than the Ucluelet wave. What makes Ucluelet a record-breaker is that it was three times as tall as the surrounding waves, whereas Draupner was just over twice as tall. Scientists have recorded a smattering of other rogue waves, including “Andrea” (2007) and “Killard” (2015), but this plus-sized type of wave probably appears more often than we think—we just don’t know about them.
The monster wave was detected by a three-foot buoy floating 148 feet (45 meters) above the Pacific seafloor. Victoria-based MarineLabs Data Systems placed its CoastScout sensor buoy—currently one of 26 buoys positioned strategically along coastlines and oceans around North America—at Amphitrite Bank some 4.4 miles (7 km) from the Vancouver Island shore.
“The unpredictability of rogue waves, and the sheer power of these ‘walls of water’ can make them incredibly dangerous to marine operations and the public,” Scott Beatty, MarineLabs CEO, said in the statement. “The potential of predicting rogue waves remains an open question, but our data is helping to better understand when, where and how rogue waves form, and the risks that they pose.”
MarineLabs plans to increase its fleet to 70 buoys by the end of 2022, which should dramatically improve its monitoring capabilities. And thank goodness for that. There’s still much to learn about these gigantic, and dangerous, swells.
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Four-story high rogue wave breaks records off the coast of Vancouver Island
“Only a few rogue waves in high sea states have been observed directly, and nothing of this magnitude. The probability of such an event occurring is one in 1,300 years,” said Johannes Gemmrich, one of the lead researchers on rogue waves at the University of Victoria.
The wave made a splash in the scientific community for being proportionally the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded. Although it occurred in November 2020, the study confirming it was just released February 2 of this year.
A rogue wave is exactly how it sounds: unexpected and terrifying.
“They look like a large four-story lump sticking out of the water with a large peak and big troughs before it,” Scott Beatty, CEO of MarineLabs, the company operating the buoy which measured the wave, told CNN.
In the past few decades, what was once known as marine folklore has now been accepted as real by scientists.
“Rogues, called ‘extreme storm waves’ by scientists, are those waves which are greater than twice the size of surrounding waves, are very unpredictable, and often come unexpectedly from directions other than prevailing wind and waves,” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) explained.
In simplified terms, “A rogue wave is actually just a wave that is large compared to the surrounding wave field,” Gemmrich clarified.
Overall size doesn’t matter, but the comparison in size to other waves does.
Thus, while a wave achieving a four-story height equivalent is impressive, its magnitude being three times that of its surrounding waves is what landed it in the record books.
The first rogue wave recorded, known as “The Draupner Wave,” was measured in 1995 off the coast of Norway at 84 feet (25.6 meters) with surrounding waves of approximately 40 feet (12 meters), making the original rogue wave about twice the size of those around it.
The record-breaking rogue wave recorded in November 2020 measured at almost 58 feet (17.6 meters) in comparison to surrounding waves of around 20 feet (6 meters), blowing the original proportions out of the water.
Recording these “killer waves” is no easy feat
The rogue wave in the study was measured via a MarineLabs buoy approximately 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) off of the coast of Ucluelet, British Columbia.
“We’re a real-time intelligence company, and we provide real-time updates on what is going on along the coastline, including wind, waves, and other data,” Beatty explained.
The company produced a video simulation of the buoy around the time the rogue wave came through, showing the swell in comparison to the smaller surrounding waves.
The problem lies in how to continuously track rogue waves once identified by a sensor.
“Most observations are at a single buoy, a single location, and so the wave passes through, and we know at this moment it was this high, but we don’t know how long. That is the big science question,” Gemmrich noted.
One thing is known for sure: Rogue waves are not afraid to rock the boat.
Such waves can pose a significant threat to marine operations as well as the public due to their immense power and lack of predictability, Beatty stressed.
“They are unexpected, so the vessel operator has little warning. If it is high enough that it can cause some damage to the vessel, the operator has no time to change course or react to it.” Gemmrich added.
One common misconception Gemmrich wanted to emphasize is rogue waves are not to be mistaken for tsunamis. Although both are known for being large waves, the way they come about is completely different.
“Rogue waves are generated by wind, so they are just a rare occurrence of wind generated waves. Whereas a tsunami is generated most commonly by an earthquake, underwater earthquake, or as we’ve seen recently a volcano eruption,” Gemmrich stated.
Coastal communities everywhere are vulnerable to rogue waves. According to Gemmrich, anywhere exposed to water could experience a rogue wave, though places with strong currents may be more likely to see them.
As for Vancouver Island, there was no reported damage from the rogue wave, as it occurred too far offshore. However, they can present onshore danger if they originate closer to the coast.
To ensure better safety in the future, the scientific community is pushing for better research and forecasting to help prevent any damage to maritime operations or the public.
Jennie Lyons at NOAA pointed out there are specialized distinctions for rogue waves.
A “sneaker wave” typically describes a rogue wave condition along the beach because it sneaks up on you. Rogue waves out over open water much larger than those around it, are often called “freak” waves. And rogue waves large enough to damage a ship or cause a ship to roll more than normal are called “killer waves,” because if they are severe enough, the damage could capsize a ship, potentially killing people.
MarineLabs has a system of 26 buoys placed strategically in the oceans surrounding North America with hopes to more than double their number by the end of 2022.
“We are aiming to improve safety and decision-making for marine operations and coastal communities through widespread measurement of the world’s coastlines,” Beatty stated.
Off-duty Vancouver police officer fatally shot
Nine local law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty since 1922, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Columbian archives.
Over the past decade, 1,763 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty — an average of 176 per year. There were 306 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2020 across the U.S., statistics from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund show.
July 23, 2021: Detective Jeremy Brown, Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Brown was shot in his vehicle while conducting surveillance at an east Vancouver apartment complex. The shooting investigation is ongoing.
July 30, 2004: Sgt. Brad Crawford, Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Crawford was killed when his unmarked patrol car was intentionally rammed by a pickup whose driver was fleeing a domestic disturbance at his home.
March 2, 1987: Trooper James S. Gain, Washington State Patrol. Gain died just after he had stopped a motorist for speeding on Interstate 5 near Salmon Creek. He was standing on the shoulder when a truck hit him.
Nov. 18, 1976: Deputy Martin Sowders, Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Sowders was accidentally shot and killed by another deputy during a shootout with a suspect wanted for robbing a pharmacy.
Dec. 21, 1951: Trooper Don R. Campbell Jr., Washington State Patrol. Campbell was struck by a vehicle while directing traffic.
Sept. 29, 1932: Special Agent Ballard W. Turner, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Turner was shot while raiding a still in Vancouver.
Oct. 15, 1932: Special Agent Ernest B. Vlasich, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Vlasich was shot by a suspect in Vancouver while attempting an arrest.
May 22, 1927: Clark County Sheriff Lester Wood. The newly elected sheriff and some of his deputies were searching for a still near Yacolt when Wood was confronted by a gunman. He rounded a bend and was shot and killed.
Aug. 7, 1922: Deputy Wilfred E. Rorison, Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Rorison was killed during a raid on a moonshine still when he and two prohibition agents were met by gunfire.
Vancouver police seek witnesses to ‘disturbing attack’ on young Asian woman
Police in Vancouver, Canada, are seeking the public’s help to identify a man involved in an “unprovoked and random” attack on a young Asian woman on New Year’s Eve.
Surveillance footage released by the Vancouver Police Department shows the 22-year-old woman strolling outside of Hotel Georgia on West Georgia Street when the man walking in the opposite direction grabs her at around 3:30 p.m.
“This is a very concerning incident,” Const. Tania Visintin told the Vancouver Sun. “The victim was just walking down the street minding her own [business] when it occurred.”
The young woman can be seen on camera being thrown against the wall outside of the hotel and held down, but police said she managed to break away from the attacker. It has not been determined if the attack was racially motivated.
“This video clearly shows the unprovoked and random nature of this disturbing attack,” Visintin said. “Unfortunately, these types of incidents are happening more often in the city, and it’s led to many people feeling less safe when they’re alone in public.”
The suspect was last seen walking east on West Georgia Street immediately after the incident and is described as a white, middle-aged man wearing gray pants, a black jacket over a black shirt that has a logo in the middle of it and a black toque. He was also carrying headphones as well as a blue bag.
Anyone with further information on the incident is encouraged to call VPD investigators at 604-717-4022.
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