Change call after cooling systems sink ships
THE Government’s Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents today called for major improvements in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s vessel inspection and survey regime after a Scottish fishing boat and an English trawler sank within a month because of identical defects in their seawater cooling systems.
Dramatic pictures of the final moments of the Buckie-registered Audacious as she foundered off the Aberdeenshire coast have been included in a detailed report on the loss of the two vessels published by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch.
The twin rigged stern trawler sank 45 miles east of Aberdeen on 10 August last year - 22 days before the Brixham-based beam trawler “Chloe T” foundered 17 miles south west of Bolt Head in Devon.
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