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Safety lessons: know your vessel's limitations and operate within them
A safety message to the fishing industry about how modifications and loading can adversely effect stability and how EPIRBs and/or PLBs are mandatory safety equipment for very good reason.
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Summary of the capsize and sinking of the whelk potter Nicola Faith (BS58), resulting in the loss of all three crew, in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, on 27 January 2021.
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- fishing industry
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An investigation report has also been produced for this accident.
Updates to this page
Published 23 June 2022