B-C Supreme Court is hearing from one of the two people alone on the bridge the night the Queen of the North ferry sank in March of 2006, killing two people.
Karen Briker, the Quartermaster that night, says she was alone on the bridge with Fourth Officer Karl Lilgert, who was accused of criminal negligence causing the deaths of two passengers.
In the moments before the collision, Bricker says Lilgert gave her an order to change the ship’s course.
She says she questioned it, he confirmed it, and she turned to input the order into the controls.
She says she then saw tree-tops referring to the ferry running aground on Gil Island.
Briker says Lilgert told her to turn the Auto-Pilot off, but she didn’t know how, so he came over to do it.
She says she went to call the Captain and shortly heard Lilgert yelling to another officer “…I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I was trying to get around the fishing boat”.
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