Investigation Report
Persons overboard from creelers Discovery and Breadwinner during single handed operations with loss of 2 lives
Persons overboard from creelers Discovery and Breadwinner during single handed operations with loss of 2 lives
- MAIB
- Investigation Report
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueHuman FactorsMarine Operations
- DrowningEntanglementRegulation and legislation
- Fishing operationsManual handling
- Personal locator beaconsPersonal protective equipment
- Evacuation, escape and rescueOperating and work proceduresRisk assessment
- Commercial fishing
- Vessel
Summary
Combined investigation of two fatal losses overboard during single-handed creel fishing off Scotland. Discovery’s precise accident sequence remains uncertain; Breadwinner’s skipper became entangled while shooting creels and drowned. The report examines V-wheel haulers, potting rollers, self-shooting arrangements, gear separation, risk assessment, flotation, personal locator beacons and delayed rescue.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Fishing operations.
Classifications: Manual handling; manual lifting.
Classifications: Personal locator beacons; PLB.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Commercial fishing.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Locations: Discovery, 3 miles east of Fraserburgh, Scotland/Breadwinner, 5.5 miles east of Score Head, Bressay, Scotland.
Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, human factors, marine operations.