On 6/16/2000 , the vessel TRUE NORTH II (Official Number 369046) was involved in a person seriously injured or killed - boarding, being on board, falling overboard from the ship in BEACHY COVE, FLOWER POT ISLAND, GEORGIAN BAY, ONTARIO (ON).

The vessel, with 1 persons on board, experienced the incident while engaged in regular operations. Fortunately, the ship was able to continue its voyage. No injuries or fatalities were reported, and there was minor pollution.

This incident was officially recorded by Transport Canada on 6/20/2000 . Weather at the time was reported as clear with winds from the SW at 40.00 knots.

On 16 June 2000, while returning to Tobermory, Ontario, from Flowerpot Island, Georgian Bay, Ontario, in moderate sea and weather conditions, the small passenger vessel "TRUE NORTH II" was swamped by a series of waves which stove in the vessel's bridge front door, flooded the main deck and downflooded into the hull. The vessel sank rapidly in 15 metres of water approximately 200 metres off Flowerpot Island at about 1030 local time. Of the 20 people on board, 18 drifted ashore on two buoyant apparatus. Two grade-seven school children drowned.