“Spoiler Alert: His viral jump ends at the hospital,” reads a new sign in the Lynn Canyon Park from North Vancouver aimed at informing a younger audience about the dangers of cliffs jump.
“Your friends can encourage. The first to answer no,” read another.
Both are part of a new campaign of the district aimed at raising awareness about the jump of cliffs in the popular park, which has seen 40 of those deaths in the last 50 years and the taxedlisons taxed.
North Vancouver RCMP said the park receives more than 500,000 visits every year. It is a 15 -kilometer trip from the center of Vancouver and has a suspension bridge through the canyon, sea walks and stairs that hug fences, sometimes steep falls, where people often jump to cold water pools underneath.
Those falls can be 10 meters or more.
“Although much of the access to the cliff is surrounded by warning signs, people still leave the limits, on fences to the cliff jump,” said Fire Chief of the North Vancouver district, Mike Danks.
The new signs add to those who are already in their place shown by the marked statistics of injuries and deaths.
“We install new bold signs designed to resonate with younger visitors and strengthen the dangers of cliffs,” the district said in a press release.
“The cliff jump can look good, but it is very dangerous, and sometimes mortal.”
Cliff jumping in Lynn Canyon Park is not a criminal offense, “but we strongly recommend,” CPL said. Mansoor Sahak in a recent video published by force to its social media channels.
#Northvan RCMP and @Dnvfrs Once again, they warn Lynn Canyon Parkgoers about the dangers of cliffs. Every year, the police and fire respond to innumerable bailouts in Lynn Canyon Park. Tragically, there have been more than 40 deaths in Lynn Canyon in the last 50 years. pic.twitter.com/nxDMYM78go
Alcohol consumption is prohibited in the park, but authorities say they often use it with cliffs. Patrolmen can issue fines for trapped people drinking in the park under the BC Liquor Control and Licensing Law.
Beyond the risks of drinking in precarious places, the authorities say that there is a danger that a cliff slide and fall or hit a rock face on their way down. And, there is the ice temperature of the water, which moistens and Sahak, say that the shock jumpers and cause hypothermia in minutes.
“Water is very, very cold, many people don’t realize this,” Danks said.
The North Vancouver district has placed new signals at Lynn Canyon Park to discourage the dangerous cliff jump. As Kier Junos reports, visitors are warned that water levels and conditions can change rapidly, and Canyon cliffs can be steep, slippery and, in some cases, unstable.
Sahak said that group pressure to jump has played a role in some of the jumps of jump in Lynn Canyon Park, with most victims as young people.
“So we are asking you, do not press any of your friends to do something dangerous that can cost them their life.”
The district says that the number of patrols made by Park Rangers has increased to help educate park visitors.
