The former navigation officer of a B-C Ferry goes to trial this week, almost seven years after the Queen of the North sank off the northwestern coast.
Two people from 100 Mile House were presumed drowned.
Karl Lilgert has pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death.
Ninety-nine passengers and crew survived with the help of First Nations boats which came to the rescue in March 2006 when the ship slammed into Gil Island on its way to Port Hardy from Prince Rupert.
