Safety Flash
MAIB: Capsize and sinking of fishing vessel Joanna C – vessel stability
MAIB: Capsize and sinking of fishing vessel Joanna C – vessel stability
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 21/22
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueManagement of ChangeVessel and Mooring
- DrowningLoss of vessel stability
- Fishing operations
- Evacuation, escape and rescueManagement of change
- Commercial fishing
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises MAIB findings on Joanna C’s fatal capsize while recovering scallop dredges snagged on a potting line. Through-life modifications had reduced stability, with assessment left unfinished. It also examines the liferaft’s failure to inflate and highlights stability implications of modifications and float-free lifesaving arrangements.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Loss of vessel stability; capsize; vessel stability.
Classifications: Fishing operations.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Commercial fishing.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published Accident Investigation Report 7/2022 into the capsize and sinking with loss of life, of the fishing vessel Joanna C.
IMCA SF 21/22. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, management of change, vessel and mooring.