- bringing a little life into your lights
For those of you that do not know, MCTS (Marine Communications and Traffic Services) is “the Branch of the Canadian Coast Guard that provides communications and vessel traffic services to the sea-going public”. “MCTS monitors for distress radio signals; provides the communications link between vessels in distress and the JRCC/MRSC; sends safety information; handles public […]
This song is from the album Undun by the Roots. It is called Lighthouse. The words to the chorus are interesting. Imagine lying in the ocean and seeing a lighthouse nearby and no one sees you because it is unmanned! Imagine the feeling of fear! Think automation? Unmanning lighthouses? No one’s in the lighthouseYou’re face […]
Environment Canada (EC) has a cooperative/volunteer climate network weather collection project called COOLTAP.(Cooperative Online Temperature and Precipitation Entry System). It is a web-based Data entry system website where daily weather data is entered and used. All that is required is an internet-connected computer to input the data. NOAA (USA) uses a similar data collection program called […]
The following article by Bella Bathhurst from the Notting Hill Editions Journal was passed to me by a BC lightkeeper. It was so well written I asked permission to reprint it here. Pay special attention to the author’s reasons for keeping lighthouses. ************************************* Don’t Let the Lighthouses go Dark by Bella Bathhurst – published November […]
The following article appeared in 2010 and I received permission to publish it here to show the work that lighthouse keepers do, but is not part of their job description. This is why we need lighthouse keepers! Keep the lights manned! Another Chrome Island rescue appeared here on my website. ************************************* Lighthouse keepers key in […]
The following article appeared in 2010 and I received permission to publish it here to show the work that lighthouse keepers do, but is not part of their job description. This is why we need lighthouse keepers! Keep the lights manned! ********************************* Saving lives part of the job on Chrome Island – with permission from […]
In the early twentieth century there were many navigational lights on the British Columbia coast maintained by individuals under contract. These were not lighthouses but pylons, piles, posts, rafts, or dolphins of wood or cement, or metal tanks made from disused military mooring buoys. Upon these moorings was placed a kerosene (coal oil) lamp which […]