VANCOUVER, B.C. – A new report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) included three recommendations to Transport Canada (TC) on passenger-vessel safety, as it examined an Oct. 25, 2015 accident in which the whale-watching boat Leviathan II capsized in Clayoquot Sound, B.C. During an excursion that day, a large wave struck the Leviathan II on the starboard quarter, sending 24 passengers and three crew members overboard into cold seawater without flotation aids. Six of the passengers died, according to the report, which was released at a news conference at the Vancouver Maritime Museum on the morning of June 14. The TSB recommended that TC do three things: identify areas off the Pacific coast conducive to the forming of large waves and adopt strategies to protect vessels from them; make passenger vessels adopt better risk-management processes and strategies; and have passenger vessels that travel beyond sheltered areas carry emergency radio equipment to reduce response time during accidents. “When people find themselves in cold water, every second counts,” TSB chair Kathy Fox said at the conference. “Our recommendations today are aimed at putting in place measures to avoid accidents in the first place and to expedite rescue efforts.”