Tag Archives: UK MAIB
Crew of sunken ‘Ocean Way’ was unprepared for emergency
On the morning of 3 March 2017, the twin-rigged trawler Ocean Way foundered 18 nautical miles north-east of Lerwick, Scotland, after suffering a flood in its aft compartment/accommodation space. The flood was almost certainly the result of hull damage caused when the port trawl door struck the hull during recovery of the gear. Despite the crew’s efforts to bring the flooding under control using fixed and portable pumps, the ingress of water exceeded the pumping effort and Ocean Way succumbed to overwhelming down flooding when the open accommodation space escape hatch submerged. >click to read<12:37
Lessons learned: Submarine snagging into fishing gears
It was a clear, calm day and a prawn trawler was towing its nets in coastal fishing grounds; the depth of water was about 100m and there were over 60 fishing boats, mainly trawlers, operating in the area. At the same time, a nuclear-powered submarine was conducting a submerged passage through the area. The submarine was deep below the surface where periscopes and radar could not be used; this meant that it was reliant on its sonar systems to detect noises from other vessels in order to avoid them.,, As the submarine approached the fishing grounds, >click to read<15:08
