"Royal Canadian Mounted Police show a ship called the Ocean Lady (top)...

which was intercepted and boarded by an RCMP emergency response team off the British Columbia coast early October 17, 2009. Canada detained the ship believed to be trying to smuggle more than 70 migrants onto its Pacific coast, police said on Saturday. The merchant vessel was intercepted by border officers and the Canadian military off Vancouver Island, and the people on board said they were attempting to reach Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. The origin of the vessel and nationalities of the 76 people on the ship were not immediately known."

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