BC Ferries ship stops to let black bear swim past

After the ferry operator tweeted the update, bear puns ensued

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Caption: What did the bear do when it crossed the channel? Stopped a BC Ferries vessel, apparently. (Robb Douglas/CBC)

Lengthy waits and ferry delays are to be expected on the May long weekend.
But BC Ferries had a pretty good excuse when one of its vessels stopped Saturday morning near its terminal in Nanaimo, B.C.
The Queen of Oak Bay paused outside of Departure Bay to let a black bear swim past, the ferry operator said on Twitter.
A photo shared online showed a police vessel nearby.

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BC Ferries seemed keen to, ahem, bear the extremely B.C. news.

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Shortly after it tweeted the update, the bear puns ensued.

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We can only paws-tulate that the humour is bear-ied in there somewhere.
BC Ferries has 15 extra sailings on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay route over the long weekend.