Family members and first responders placed photographs of the missing on easels before the start of the press conference, which was held in a room in Credit Union Square in Dauphin.

A shadow has hung over this community since the collision. We lost 16 mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and grandparents who worked for decades to build the community we know today. They disappeared instantly, said Jeff Asmundson, superintendent of Manitoba’s RCMP West District.

First responders and victims’ families at the RCMP press conference.

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The victims were between 68 and 88 years old. Along with the names of those who disappeared, RCMP spokesmen also read out messages from the families paying tribute to them.

Here is a list of the victims, along with messages that loved ones chose to release, as they appear in the RCMP press release:

• Louis Bretecher, 81 years old. “Proud Husband, Father and Grandpa who we love so much. He will be missed forever and will be remembered by all who knew and loved him. The other grieving families are in our hearts. We ask that the media respect our family’s privacy at this difficult time. »
• Margaret Furkalow, 82 years old. “Forever in our hearts. “
• Vangie Gilchrist, 83 years old. By Gilbert Plains. »
• Ann Hill, 81 years old. “Rest in Peace Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma, my sister. »
• Helen Kufley, 88. “We are heartbroken by this tragedy and the loss of our living Mother Baba and Great Baba. She was and remains the cornerstone of our family, the one we always turn to for advice and wisdom, and we will miss her terribly. Many thanks to all first responders for their incredible work and to the city of Dauphin for their compassion. »
• Arlene Lindquist, 68. “A mother, a grandmother, a loving friend. »
• Dianne Medwid, 70 years old.
• Nettie Nakonechny, 87 years old. “Longtime resident of Dauphin, former teacher and ‘Baba’ not only to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren but to many others who knew her. She was very proud of her Ukrainian culture. She will be missed by all who loved her. »
• Shirley Novalkowski, 76 years old. “A mother, a grandmother, a loving sister. »
• Frank Perzylo, 82 years old.
• Rose Perzylo, 80 years old.
• Jean Rosary, 82 years old.
• Donna Showdra, 79. “She will be greatly missed by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. »
• Lillian Stobbe, 73 years old. “A mother, grandma, a loving friend. »
• Patsy Zamrykut, 88.
• Claudia Zurba, 87 years old. “Your life has been a blessing. Your memory is a treasure. You were loved beyond words and we miss you beyond measure. She was our mother, our grandma, our great-grandma, our great-grandma. we will love you forever On that day, June 15, 2023, our hearts broke.”

A minute’s silence was held to honor the victims. We will remember you, said Jeff Asmundson, superintendent of Manitoba’s RCMP West District.

Among the first responders who were at the scene of the accident, Prime Minister Heather Stefanson and Dauphin Mayor David Bosiak attended the press conference.

David Bosiak said last week the city felt a real sense of gloom and sadness upon hearing the news.

Dauphin Mayor David Bosiak recognizes the support he has received as his city is gripped by the Carberry Road tragedy.

Photo: Radio Canada / Chelsea Kemp

The next days, weeks and months will be difficult. “We have lost many family members, friends and neighbors,” Mr. Bosiak added.

“However, I know we will never forget them, and as we grieve, I am confident that we will continue to support one another and remember all the good these wonderful people have done for us.”

– A quote from David Bosiak, Mayor of Dauphin

The whole province mourns. We have to support these families. It doesn’t stop today. We want to make sure we’re there for them, no matter what they need,” Prime Minister Heather Stefanson said.

On Thursday, RCMP Superintendent Rob Lasson provided some additional details on the investigation’s progress. Both drivers were found to be in possession of a valid driver’s license. He said the mechanical assessment was still ongoing and officers were waiting for the injuries to improve so they could speak to them as part of the investigation.

Superintendent Rob Lasson speaks to the press at a news conference Thursday after the RCMP announced the identity of the victims of the Carberry crash.

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On Thursday, just before noon, a semi-truck collided with a paratransit vehicle carrying about 25 people near Carberry on the Trans-Canada Highway.

The 25 passengers were mostly seniors from the Dauphin region in the west of the province. They were on their way to the Sand Hills Casino, just minutes from the crash site.

Fifteen of them died and ten people were hospitalized. On Tuesday, one of the ten people hospitalized after the collision succumbed to his injuries. The number of accidents is therefore 16 dead and 9 injured.

Of the nine hospitalized victims, four are still in intensive care.

A vigil is planned for Thursday evening in Dauphin to commemorate the victims. It will take place at 7 p.m. in the Ukrainian Orthodox Auditorium.

In the campaign called Verano azul, which Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP presented this Thursday, almost everything fits: wanting to govern Spain alone after the 23-J elections and thus copying the model of María Guardiola in Extremadura after her break with Vox ; but also support what Carlos Mazón has done in the Valencian Community, where he has enabled the Ultra formation to sit on the assembly table and occupy a vice-presidency with attached deliberation and two other councils. The popular campaign spokesman Borja Sémper confirmed this Thursday in the same act that Feijóo “does not deviate from the principle” of running for investiture in order to govern “without other political formations”, but also that he has “other arithmetic and singularities”. supports in other places” such as the Valencian Community or the Region of Murcia, yes, without “taking a step back” in politics against sexist violence or fundamental rights.

At the presentation of the facilities of the Club Puerta de Hierro in Madrid on a beach volleyball court, in front of it a large picture of the Nerja sea accompanied by blue umbrellas with the logo of the PP and the nostalgia of Verano azul – a reference to the 80’s TV series and the Color of the political party,” the popular speaker reiterated repeatedly that his party “will not govern at any cost.” Sémper had not even foreseen the campaign slogan. The aim of the law was to send an “exciting, positive and with a friendly smile” message of the “calm and stable change” that Feijóo advocates after the 23rd century.

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Sémper himself, anticipating the journalists’ questions, announced that the PP intends to meet the PSOE next Monday to conclude the outstanding matter of personal debates, with the idea that this party will clarify beforehand whether they only between the two would like to have Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez, three involving Yolanda Díaz, further debates and under what conditions. In any case, the population has promised that there will be a dialectic duel between Sánchez and Feijóo.

The questions to Sémper focused on clarifying the position of Feijóo and therefore the national leadership of the PP, on the pacts with Vox and on the share of votes that the Ultra formation must concentrate to allow him to enter governments with the popular ones, and if the leader supports the theses of total exclusion put forward by María Guardiola from Extremadura, or the more permissive ones of Carlos Mazón in the Valencian Community. There were no clear and definitive answers, there were attacks on the governor Vox and Santiago Abascal.

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The PP’s national campaign spokesman claimed that Feijóo and the popular leadership “respect and support” Guardiola in his veto allowing Vox to enter the government of Extremadura, which could lead to a repeat of the elections in that area with unpredictable consequences. Sémper reiterated the PP leader’s thesis of granting full powers and freedom of negotiation to area leaders and Guardiola in particular, because he argues that she had already made progress in Extremadura before the elections and because she has a team and a program to do so make. However, Guardiola did not win the elections in terms of votes, he does not have an absolute majority and only has 28 seats – like the PSOE – so he needs the explicit support of the five Vox MPs for the government.

Guardiola’s permanent position contrasts with what happened in other areas, such as the Valencian Community or the Balearic Islands, where his teammates made agreements with the Ultras and where it is believed that they also had their teams and their programs. Feijóo argued on Wednesday that these different types of agreements are a matter of “proportion” in terms of the number of votes obtained, countering that there is no point in accepting these conditions as 8% of the Extremadura party support the best Share of the vote that this party would have achieved in these regional elections, but yes in Valencia, with 12%. The Murcia PP, two seats short of an absolute majority, also refuses to include Vox in their government but, with 18% of the vote, far outstripped the percentage of the Valencian vote.

Sémper did not want to answer this Thursday what Feijóo’s model is for the day after the parliamentary elections if he wins, whether Guardiola’s option or Mazón’s. He said that he doesn’t want to step out of the script now for a “wave of blue summer and the move to Sanchismo for Spain”. But before that, he hinted that after 23-J, if Feijóo wins, he will present his inauguration and form a government “without any other political formations”, adding: “We will not deviate from this principle.”

In A Coruña, the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, wanted to put into perspective somewhat the forceful statements that Guardiola himself has made in various interviews these days, in the sense that she is not ready to swallow everything to govern Extremadura. Bendodo chose to “talk to everyone and agree with almost everyone”, alluding to what happened in communities like Barcelona or Vitoria, but also in other communities with the Canarian Coalition or Vox. And he added: “Talking to everyone doesn’t mean swallowing everything.” For number three of the PP, her party has to apply “the mathematics of the state” in these numerous negotiations in order “not to disappoint expectations of change”.

At Sémper’s summer appearance, questions arose about the different criteria between Extremadura and the Community of Valencia or Murcia, without however achieving the goal of establishing or clarifying a common criterion. Sémper was asked if the Valencian Mazón had agreed to govern “at any cost” and the national leader of the PP replied that thanks to the support of Vox, the next president of the Generalitat Valenciana could “guarantee a step backwards in principle with rights” and relates focuses primarily on measures against gender-based violence or LGBTBI.

For the time being, neither Guardiola there nor Feijóo’s PP at the national level is intimidated by the danger of a repeat of the elections in Extremadura, according to their statements. Sémper backed Guardiola’s words before the election that he would govern alone to ensure political change and criticized the PSOE, other parties and Vox for not using their votes responsibly. And he added: “The sanchismo and the lack of seriousness and radicalism must be lifted.”

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The extensive search operation in the North Atlantic enters a critical phase on Thursday to find a submersible and its five occupants who are missing near the wreck of the Titanic and whose oxygen reserves have been exhausted, according to the US Coast Guard.

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The US Coast Guard has announced it is continuing “rescue operations” for a submersible and its five missing occupants near the wreck of the Titanic, despite fears of depletion of oxygen supplies.

“We continue to see that in particularly complex cases, people’s will to live must also be taken into account. And so we continue the search and continue our rescue efforts,” Rear Admiral John Mauger, head of search operations, told NBC.

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The submersible has a theoretical autonomy of 96 hours of diving.

“We have to remain optimistic and hopeful,” said U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick during a news conference in Boston on Wednesday.

The discovery of underwater noise by Canadian P-3 aircraft in the search area, announced Wednesday, raised hope and guided the multinational fleet of rescuers dispatched to the scene of the accident.

But “I can’t tell you what these sounds are,” Captain Frederick said Wednesday after examining them with remotely operated underwater vehicles and a sonar-equipped surface vessel.

• Listen to Alexandre Dubé’s interview with Bertrand Sciboz, Divers specializing in finding wrecks above QUB radio :

Aerial surveillance with C-130 or P3 aircraft, ships equipped with underwater robots: the means used in particular by the American and Canadian armies continue to reach the place where the Polar Prince, whose ship based there, the submersible Titan left.

A Canadian ship with medical staff and a decompression chamber is underway.

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The Atlante, a French Ifremer research vessel equipped with a robot capable of diving to the wreck of the Titanic, which lies nearly 4,000 meters deep, was due to depart around 8am, according to the French Research Institute for Exploitation GMT spot arrive the sea.

“The location of the research, 1450 km east of Cape Cod (on the Northeast coast of the United States, Editor’s note) and 640 km southeast of Saint John of Newfoundland (in Canada), makes it exceptionally difficult to mobilize large amounts of equipment quickly ‘ said Captain Frederick.

The surface search area covers 20,000 square kilometers.

An American, a Frenchman, a Briton and two British Pakistanis plunged into the abyss on Sunday morning aboard the Titan, a five-person submersible about 6.5 meters long. According to the US Coast Guard, he should resurface seven hours later.

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Contact with the vehicle was lost less than two hours after departure. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Coast Guard had warned that there was “about 40 hours of breathable air” on board.

Since the search began on Sunday, details have emerged implicating OceanGate, with the company being accused of potential negligence in the security of its underwater tourism device.

A 2018 complaint seen by AFP says a former company executive, David Lochridge, was fired after he expressed serious doubts about the safety of the submersible.

According to this former head of naval operations, a porthole on the front of the device was designed to withstand the pressures at 1300 m depth, not 4000 m.

The boss of OceanGate, the American Stockton Rush, is on board his Titan.

He appeared together with the wealthy British businessman Hamish Harding (58) and the French Titanic specialist Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77) – nicknamed “Mr. Titanic” – Pakistani tycoon Shahzada Dawood (48) and his son Suleman (19), who both also have British nationality.

For $250,000, they went in search of the remains of one of the greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century.

The Titanic was wrecked on her maiden voyage in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, killing nearly 1,500 passengers and crew.

Since the wreck’s discovery in 1985, scientists, treasure hunters and tourists have visited it, perpetuating the myth.

“Every hour that passes is more excruciating,” Bernard Cauvin, founder and director of the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg, western France, who worked with Paul-Henri Nargeolet, told AFP.

“I know his professionalism, also in crisis management. Psychologically and technically he knows how to handle everything, he has experienced many others,” he added.

Tom Zaller, who visited the remains of Titanic 23 years ago and runs a company hosting an exhibit on the boat in Los Angeles in late June, recalls a similar expedition in 2020 aboard a Russian ship outfitted with two submersibles was.

“I took a camera and filmed myself. I watched the footage later and was absolutely terrified,” he told AFP.

Tom Zaller has known Paul-Henri Nargeolet for a long time and was in contact with Stockton Rush shortly before his departure on Sunday.

“They have been there for almost four days. I can’t imagine it,” he breathes. “I hope and pray they get out of here and found.”