Investigation Report
Flooding and partial sinking of an inflatable migrant boat with the loss of at least 8 lives
Flooding and partial sinking of an inflatable migrant boat with the loss of at least 8 lives
- MAIB
- Investigation Report
- Structural and Asset IntegrityVessel and Mooring
- DrowningStructural and asset integrityVessel flooding and foundering
- Marine operations
- HelicopterRescue craft
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Marine industry
- Marine watersVessel
Summary
Investigation into an inflatable migrant boat’s flooding and partial sinking in the Dover Strait, with at least eight lives lost. It examines poor construction, floor failure of unknown initial cause, cold-water immersion, buoyancy aids and UK search and rescue operations, including weather-limited aerial surveillance and distress reporting.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Rescue craft; fast rescue craft; FRC; fast rescue boat; FRB.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Themes: structural and asset integrity, vessel and mooring.