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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 13

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BEST CCf 1 AVAILA3U 1 ChC SlIIl TUES, JULY 12, 1983 A13 CANADA Mew iv Trains considered Texan set for third hunt um on new writs in 1976 after Federal Court of Canada judges criticized the procedure by which the writs are issued. They are given on request to a single Mountie and can be used to raid any residence in which the Mountie believes there may be drugs. Since the charter became part of the Constitution last year, several judges have declared the writs invalid. But they have also been upheld in several courts. 7 And Kaplan said that even if the Supreme Court of Canada upholds writs, they "will not survive." He said the Law Reform Commission of Canada is expected to publish a working paper next month on writs and telephone warrants.

The paper will be studied by law officers late in August and the result might be legislation to replace the writs with-telephone warrants. OTTAWA (CP) Writs of assistance, the open search warrants Mounties use to raid homes for drugs, are no longer acceptable to Canadians and "will not survive," Solicitor-General Robert Kaplan said Monday. Instead, the government may ask Parliament to legislate a new form of writ, the "telephone warrant," he told a news conference. Kaplan said the telephone warrant is being used in the U.S. and has survived constitutional challenges, suggesting that it would also be upheld under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Under the plan, police would telephone a judge for a warrant, then must appear before the judge within 48 hours to justify it. Justice. Minister Mark MacGuigan added that the plan "might well be the way to go" in replacing the controversial writs. The government placed a moratori Tift LM OPI fiia photo magnetometer In Titanic expedition JACK GRIMM, PROF. WILLIAM RYAN Blood test proposal eyed geological outcrops-.

But on CBC'i The Journal, Grimm produced TV footage from the second expedition that he claimed was one of the Titanic's giant propellers. "The propeller was sitting upright on the bottom, which, I think, means it's still attached to the Titanic's shaft," Grimm says. Photographing it 3,700 metres down is a two-stage operation. First, the Columbia University research vessel, Conrad will tow a sonar sled, called The Sea Marc, which was engineered in B.C., on a six-kilometre cable about 400 metres above the ocean bottom. Sound bounces off magnetic objects, mainly undersea rock formation, but also metal objects such as a propeller, and produces a very detailed map of the ocean's bottom.

Grimm scoffs at the suggestion he is simply a rich Texan with an expensive hobby. "This is a business venture, just like wildcatting for oil." Footage of the Titanic's hull would be incorporated into a documentary film. rumors suggest that the safe in the purser's office contained between $20 million and $200 million worth of gems and precious metals and a number of gold bars. Grimm is successful this mer, he says he plans to come back! next year with a deep diving submersible craft and blow torch his way through the hull into that safe, By ALAN STORY Special to The Sun HALIFAX Texas oil man Jack Grimm roams the world in search of the weird and wonderful. He says he has found timbers from Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey.

From Scotland, Grimm, 58, claims he has photographs "which show the outline of something that could be the Loch Ness Monster." His hunt for the legendary Sas-quatcb five years ago in B.C. wasn't 1 as successful, "It was the weakest of my searches," the geologist and president of the Grimm Oil Company of Abilene, Texas, admits. This Saturday in Halifax, Grimm will launch yet another expedition to try to locate and photograph his "ultimate prize" the sunken hull of the Titanic, 3.7 kilometres down in the North Atlantic off Newfound--land. The two-week, $800,000 search, using the latest high-tech oceano- graphic equipment, will be his third attempt in the last four years to find the fabled, luxurious liner that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. "Third time's charm," Grimm says, adding: "I'm not going back if I don't find it this time." Once again, Grimm is counting on a sonar device designed by a B.C.

firm, International Submarine I Engineering of Port Moody, to locate the sunken prize. The tale of the Titanic has long -fascinated millions and attracted hucksters with schemes such as filling the hull with ping-pong balls and Refloating the liner, But -it's not so easy to dismiss Grimm. and his latest project, Prof. William Ryan of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological who will be a member of this week's 30-person expedition is a world-renowned ocean-ographer. "The Titantic's there, it's not like Noah's Ark." Keith Manchester, of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography In Dar-mouth, Nova Scotia, says: "Jack He alluded to the possibility of also reducing the present legal limit for the breath test and increasing the penalties.

The limit now is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100. jnillilitres of blood, the equivalent oi consuming about three beers. -7 MacGuigan said he also wants to know how the provinces plan to enforce the blood test law and what protections there should be fpr drivers in such a law. When police request a driver to give a breath test the driver can refuse, although refusal without a good reason is an offence in itself, OTTAWA (CP) A law that would allow police to have blood alcohol tests done on unconscious drivers may be introduced in Parliament this fall but Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan said Monday he would like such a move to be part of a broader package. A number of provinces support such a law and B.C.

and Saskatchewan aW' ready are moving In that direction, MacGuigan told reporters after dis- cussing the issue with provincial attorneys-general at a conference But he said the proposed law "is not going to solve the problem of impaired driving." Grimm is definitely not a crank." Manchester has used the same sonar detection instruments to map the Arctic Ocean's bottom that Grimm will be using, and says: "If the Titanic is in that area, that equipment will find it." That area lies 640 kilometres southeast of Newfoundland. On April 10, 1912, "the unsink- able" flagship of the White Star Line sailed out of Southampton, England, bound for New York on its maiden voyage, Among the passengers and crew was the cream of New York society, such as the Astors and the Guggenheims. Just before midnight on April 14, the liner collided an iceberg that ripped a 100-metre gash into its starboard side. Only 705 survivors were rescued by the nearby Carpathia. A staggering 1,513 persons had perished.

Twice before, Grimm and his crews thought they had found the Titanic's wreck. In the summer of 1980, the first expedition detected a shadowy object lying on the bottom. Lying in a deep ocean trench, the shape was "the right length, right width and right height for the Titan- ic," an expedition spokesman said. Then stormy weather set in and the expedition was called off. What they had actually found remained a -mystery.

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