Investigators are considering criminal charges in the loss of the fishing vessels Adex and Nort off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian media sources report. The Kamchatka transport prosecutor's office has taken up the case, said the Interfax news agency, and may bring charges including violation of safety rules resulting in the death of two or more [...]
Rescue services would have arrived sooner to help a trawler sinking off the north Northumberland coast last year had it been equipped with a GPS enabled EPIRB, a report has said. The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is circulating a safety flyer to fishing vessels to provide lessons learned from its investigation of the capsize and [...]
On June 12th, 2013 Paul (49), Kenny (47) and Shane (44) Bolger who were all brothers and natives of Passage East of died. It has been found that the signalling device which should have sent a beacon to the emergency services when their vessel ran into trouble failed to go off. Evidence found during the investigation by [...]
A West Australian coroner has asked the state government to recommend skippers train their crew on activation of EPIRB beacons after an examination into the drowning of a 49-year-old recreational angler. Paul Gregory Clifton had been fishing with his sibling and two companions in June 2013 when his watercraft began to take on water and rapidly sank in rough oceans. The [...]
