Transportation Safety Board report on fatal Atlantic sinking cites lax federal rules
A Transportation Safety Board of Canada report has linked the fatal sinking of a Nova Scotia scallop dragger in 2020 to years of federal inaction on the imposition of stricter stability standards for fishing vessels.
The independent agency says Transport Canada inspectors during a 2017 visit didn’t tell Yarmouth Sea Products Ltd. that the modifications to the boat were stability “risk factors,” which were defined in a federal safety bulletin and questionnaire. However, the board made clear in its report and during Wednesday’s news conference that it has long urged a stricter law on stability assessments and that Transport Canada hasn’t complied.
“That is the only way the crew on these vessels will know the safe operating limits; otherwise, they go on experience and on feeling and that’s proven in the past to be insufficient,” she said during the news conference in Halifax. The bodies of Eugene Michael Francis, Aaron Cogswell, Leonard Gabriel, Dan Forbes and captain Charles Roberts were never recovered after the 17-metre vessel went down off Delaps Cove. The body of crew member Michael Drake was swept up on the rocky shoreline.
Transport Canada had said in a January email that its inspectors weren’t “triggered” to have the owners fill out a questionnaire that would have identified the need for a stability test, and that it’s up to the owner “to ensure the vessel is operated safely and is loaded and ballasted” in a way that ensures stability.
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