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Safety lessons: consider emergency measures for reboarding your fishing vessel

A safety message to the fishing industry featuring how well-prepared risk assessments and realistic safety procedures offer protection to single-handed skippers from the hazards faced at sea.

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Summary of a fatal man overboard from the single-handed creel fishing vessel Saint Peter (LH22) off Torness Point, near Dunbar Scotland on 2 May 2021.

This information has been prepared for the:

  • fishing industry

An investigation report has also been produced for this accident.

Published 16 June 2022