Investigation Report
Wash from ferry swamping and partially submerging open sports boat with loss of 3 lives
Wash from ferry swamping and partially submerging open sports boat with loss of 3 lives
- MAIB
- Investigation Report
- Unknown
- Marine Operations
- DrowningStructural and asset integrityVessel flooding and foundering
- Navigation
- Pumps
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Marine industry
- Marine watersVessel
Summary
Investigation synopsis of a boat swamping on Loch Ryan, with three deaths and two survivors. Hull modifications reduced buoyancy, while heavy loading and inadequate safety equipment increased vulnerability. Ferry voyage-data radar recordings helped reconstruct events, but investigators could not establish the source of the waves that caused the sinking.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Pumps.
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.
Summary
Ferry wash swamped an open sports boat on Loch Ryan, resulting in three fatalities.
Themes: marine operations.