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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.

This information has been prepared for the:

  • fishing industry

An investigation report has also been produced for this accident.

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Published 23 June 2022

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