About UsCIMarE branch

The Vancouver Island Branch is located in Victoria, serving the larger Vancouver Island area. The Branch is well-organized and has an active program.

Monthly Meetings

Monthly meetings usually take place on the third Thursday of the month, starting at 7PM in the lower lounge of the Naden Naval Officers’ Wardroom near the dockyard entrance, at 1586 Esquimalt Road. The Wardroom is located at the west end of Esquimalt Rroad and a link to the map is here (http://www.wardroom.ca/Wardroom.dll/Contact_Us)

Members often arrive early to join colleagues for a beverage in the upstairs lounge.

Branch Executive

Name	Position
Tony Cond	Branch Chair
Mike Weaver	Past Chair
Edward Camilleri	Treasurer
Tjeerd (Jerry) Verwey	Membership Coordinator
Sam Johnson	Secretary
Ryan Nicoll	National Council Representative
Bill Wallace	Communication Coordinator
Brian Merz	Social / Papers Coordinator
Director	Kelley Rooney
Phil Dauphinee	Member at Large

EventsVancouver Island Branch

Technical Presentation: OCEANOGRAPHIC BUOY MOORINGS

March 12, 2021
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C.I.MAR.E. VANCOUVER ISLAND BRANCH INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR AN INFORMATIVE WEBINAR

DATE: THURSDAY, MARCH 18th, 2021

TIME: 19:00 Pacific (22:00 Eastern, 23:00 Atlantic, 23:30 NFLD)

OCEANOGRAPHIC BUOY MOORINGS

This coming Thursday, the 19th of March, Ryan Nicoll will give a presentation on how the mooring systems of deep-ocean oceanographic buoys are developed, along with a comparison of predicted vs. actual mooring loads. Oceanographic moorings are critical to our collective ability to measure and understand oceanographic processes. The moorings locate buoys in all water depths, and must survive the effects of wind, currents, and waves. Development and deployment of these buoys is critically dependent on their mooring systems.

The mooring systems, in turn, are site-specific to the buoys’ location, and the engineering behind the mooring systems are a specialty of DSA Ocean, which Ryan founded.

February 16, 2021
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C.I.MAR.E. VANCOUVER ISLAND BRANCH INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR AN INFORMATIVE WEBINAR

DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th

TIME: 19:00 PST (22:00 EASTERN, 23:00 ATLANTIC, 23:30 pm NFLD)

Oil Spills – Can They Be Mitigated on Canada’s West Coast

Michael Lowry, Communications Manager for Western Canadian Marine Response Corporation, will give a presentation on WCMRC’s presence and capabilities on the BC coast, along with a generous serving of actual sea stories, describing the challenges of both human and environmental genres, and will outline how the cleanup of an oil spill is managed and presented.

January 20, 2021
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Thursday’s presenter will be Klaus Kreye from BC Hydro.

He’ll be speaking about power supply to Vancouver Island and particularly to the challenges of providing cold-ironing capability at the Ogden Point piers.

He’ll welcome all questions, not just particular ones to the topic above, recognizing that his expertise and ours overlaps in the field of shorepower requirements of large cruise ships. and there are a wide range of interesting electrical issues in play on our Island.

The meeting will use CIMarE’s GoToMeeting software as its platform

It’s an easy platform to use (trust me on this……….I’ve had no problems using it, and I’m no computer whiz……)

The site will open at 1900; the first 30 minutes are the equivalent of the friendly conversations prior to our in-person meetings, and can also provide time to salt down minor procedural glitches. The presentation will start at 1930 from your favorite browser, log into the members only area and view the event to get the GoTo Meeting Link.

Our Web Meeting Coordinator, Brian Merz, will be onsite to support us if there is a hiccup, and can be reached by phone at 236-562-4738 once the site opens.

This new media platform will widen the scope of future potential presentations and it will enable us to stay in contact with one another both visually and audibly.

Our first few virtual Branch meetings have been excellent.

I hope that all who can will partake of this opportunity to be part of a significant step forward in the Vancouver Island Branch’s future.

Vancouver Island Member Meeting – November

November 7, 2020
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C.I.MAR.E. VANCOUVER ISLAND BRANCH INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR AN INFORMATIVE WEBINAR

DATE: THURSDAY, November 19th, 2020

TIME: 19:00 PACIFIC (22:00 EASTERN, 23:00 ATLANTIC, 23:30 NFLD)

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT TAKES TO MOOR A LARGE SHIP? – QUITE A BIT!

A presentation with a blend of construction diagrams, history, objectives and sea stories leading up to descriptions of the new dolphin project at Odgen Point, BC

Presenter

Mark Crisp, Director, Infrastructure,

Greater Victoria Harbour Authority

Mark is responsible for planning and implementation of Asset and Capital works programs/projects for Greater Victoria Harbour Authority.

Vancouver Island Branch

About UsCIMarE branch

Monthly Meetings

Branch Executive

EventsVancouver Island Branch

Technical Presentation: OCEANOGRAPHIC BUOY MOORINGS

Technical Presentation by Western Canadian Marine Response Corporation – Mitigating Oil Spills

Vancouver Island Branch Meeting and Technical Presentation

Vancouver Island Member Meeting – November

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT TAKES TO MOOR A LARGE SHIP? – QUITE A BIT!