Research and analysis

Safety lessons: awareness of stability risks when beam trawling

A safety message to the fishing industry highlighting advice to operators and skippers of the risk of capsize when operating beam trawlers.

• From: Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• Published: 1 July 2003

Documents

MAIB safety flyer issued July 2003

PDF, 222 KB, 2 pages

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Details

Summary of the capsize of the beam trawler Flamingo with loss of 4 lives when a weight of rocks and shells in the port net caused it to break at a “weak link”.

The information has been prepared for the:

• fishing industry

Related publication

An investigation report has also been produced for this accident.

Published 1 July 2003