Marine Accident Investigation Branch reports

This bulletin urges owners, operators and skippers of fishing vessels fitted with side shell doors to ensure suitable and sufficient risk assessment of watertight integrity.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 22 July 2024

This bulletin urges fishing vessel owners and crew to review their deck risk assessments ensuring that hazards associated with the shooting or recovery of creels are fully mitigated.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 12 July 2024

This bulletin urges owners and operators of beam and scallop trawlers to inspect their vessel’s quick-release arrangements and to make any necessary changes to the equipment or its operation to ensure the safety of crew work…

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 6 October 2023

This bulletin urges all owners and operators of DSB liferafts serviced by Comfer Marin SL, Spain between Jan 2017 and June 2022 to contact the nearest approved Survitec liferaft service station.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 1 June 2022

We have issued a safety bulletin highlighting a potentially serious hazard associated with condensed aerosol firefighting suppressant particles after the fatal accident on fishing vessel Resurgam.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 15 November 2019

Urgent bulletin issued after working in a refrigerated salt water tank resulted in a fatal accident on board fv Sunbeam (FR487) at Fraserburgh, Scotland.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over and 4 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 14 August 2018

Urgent safety lessons issued after the failure of a throw bag rescue line during a boat capsize rescue drill on 24 March 2018.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel under 100 gross tons and 3 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 24 March 2018

This document makes urgent recommendation to all owners/skippers of UK registered fishing vessels and to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 11 January 2000

This document makes recommendation to owners and skippers to urgently check liferafts.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 1 May 2004

This document warns owners, skippers and crews about potential hazards associated with using LPG on board craft and makes recommendations.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel under 100 gross tons and 3 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 30 June 1999

This document makes urgent recommendations to users, service stations and suppliers of inflatable lifejackets.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over and 4 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 10 April 2002

This document recommends the vessel not undertake any further fishing operations until safe operation can be ensured.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 15 January 2010

This documents makes an urgent recommendation to fishing vessel owners and skippers.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 21 September 2002

This document makes urgent recommendations to fishing vessel skippers and crews concerning fixed CO2 fire extinguishing systems.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 30 January 2004

Urgent recommendations made to ship owners/managers, industry bodies/organisations and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over and 4 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 11 July 2008

This document makes urgent recommendations to owners/skippers of fishing vessels.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 1 October 1999

This document highlights urgent action to be taken by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and makes a recommendation to users of small craft.

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over and 4 others
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 17 July 1999

This document warns of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning following 2 deaths on the scallop dredger Eshcol.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 15 January 2014

This document makes an urgent safety recommendation to the owner of the fishing vessel and highlights health and safety shortcomings.

• Vessel type: Fishing vessel
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Occurred: 13 May 2000