{"id":616332,"date":"2026-04-20T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:42:10","slug":"police-incident-delays-ferries-victoria-times-colonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616332\/","title":{"rendered":"Police incident delays ferries &#8211; Victoria Times Colonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident forced two other vessels to hold in place, including the 11:55 a.m. sailing destined for Bowen Island and the 10:55 a.m. sailing arriving from Nanaimo.<\/p>\n<p>Ferry sailings in Nanaimo were delayed Sunday after a police incident on a vessel travelling between Langdale and Horseshoe Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Ferries website said Sunday afternoon that the Queen of Surrey was holding in the Horseshoe Bay dock because of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident forced two other vessels to hold in place, including the 11:55 a.m. sailing destined for Bowen Island and the 10:55 a.m. sailing arriving from Nanaimo. <\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Ferries website said the sailing bound for Nanaimo from Horseshoe Bay scheduled to leave at 1:25 p.m. was delayed.<\/p>\n<p>An update just after 4 p.m. on the website said the sailing arriving from Nanaimo was holding outside of the dock.<\/p>\n<p>It said police requested that no vessels enter or exit Horseshoe Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle traffic at Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay in Nanaimo was at capacity Sunday afternoon, they said.<\/p>\n<p>A social media post from the West Vancouver Police said they were on the scene to \u201cprovide assistance to a member of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"335b5f5a5d5873475a5e5640505c5f5c5d5a40471d505c5e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident forced two other vessels to hold in place, including the 11:55 a.m. sailing destined for Bowen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-616332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}