{"id":26798,"date":"2014-07-13T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26798"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:49:38","slug":"hmcs-regina-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/hmcs-regina-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>HMCS Regina<\/em> at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/canada\/photos-life-on-a-canadian-navy-frigate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Taylor-Vaisey<\/a> has a video and photos from <em>HMCS Regina<\/em>&#8216;s most recent tour of duty.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=3664838989001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macleans.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fphotos-life-on-a-canadian-navy-frigate%2F&#038;playerID=11932538001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAyz2WOE~,aVUQ6mHrguC3SzWDnMlRYDiGocOp4FSC&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Bregg boarded <em>HMCS Regina<\/em> on a fateful day for the ship\u2019s crew. Bregg, a former <em>Maclean\u2019s<\/em> chief photographer who spent 18 days observing Canadian anti-smuggling operations in the Indian Ocean, arrived in Dar es Salaam on April 21. He left the steamy Tanzanian port city the same day Leading Seaman Brandon South, a sonar operator, died in a nearby hospital, while off-duty, of causes not yet released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Daniel Charlebois, the ship\u2019s commanding officer, informed the crew. Morale plummeted, says Bregg. \u201cIt was really depressing,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI stayed out of their way and put my camera away.\u201d During a memorial service two days later, Bregg was in a Navy helicopter that paid tribute to the late seaman with a flypast. He called the sombre service \u201calmost like a burial at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South\u2019s death was a rare dark moment aboard <em>Regina<\/em>, says Bregg, where the 265 sailors normally kept \u201cextremely high\u201d spirits as they went about their business: maintenance, target practice, personal training, and the self-explanatory \u201cSundae Sundays.\u201d When necessary, they transition easily between the formal chain of command and lighter moments at sea. While sailors chow down on ice cream or unload the ship, rank dissolves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maclean&#8217;s, Nick Taylor-Vaisey has a video and photos from HMCS Regina&#8216;s most recent tour of duty. Peter Bregg boarded HMCS Regina on a fateful day for the ship\u2019s crew. Bregg, a former Maclean\u2019s chief photographer who spent 18 days observing Canadian anti-smuggling operations in the Indian Ocean, arrived in Dar es Salaam on April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[927,30,745,257],"class_list":["post-26798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","tag-indianocean","tag-navy","tag-rcn","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Ye","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26799,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions\/26799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}