The Canadian destroyer escort Yukon steams along during her
active-duty days.   • The Canadian destroyer escort Yukon steams
along during her active-duty days.   • Story alerts   • Letter
to Editor   • Pin it  The death count is now five. The latest,
on December 1, was a 26-year-old woman. Her body was found
aboard the Yukon. It’s a story that is doomed to be repeated for
as long as it takes steel to decompose in salt water. As long as
the destroyer escort HMCS (Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship) Yukon,
sunk in July of 2000 off the coast of Mission Beach, remains as
she is, each scuba-diving death — and there will be more — will
require the retelling of the story  As a certified scuba diver,
I know exploring a ship is one of the most dangerous adventures
a diver can experience. But that’s not the kind of dive site the
Yukon was originally conceived to be. It was supposed to be an
inviting dive site for beginning and intermediate divers. But it
has become a death trap for those who thought they knew what
they were d