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Subject: TWL: RE: Collision of Tug Arctic Taglu & FV Bona Vista
From: frank weismantel (fxw@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 20:53:35 EST
Hello All,
That was a sobering read, for sure. Worthy of note was the fact that the
tug and vts both were aware of the fishboat throughout the entire incident.
Question: The tug was found to have had an inadequate watch, even though
the watchstander identified the fishboat, discussed it with VTS and took
evasive action. Is this a case of a regulatory agency looking for someone
to blame or was having a single watchstander clearly imprudent? SeaLink is
supposed to be a first class operation and I found myself thinking they did
all they could, under the circumstances.
Question: Mike Maurice, would you have known, from the lights displayed by
the ATB combo, what you were facing?
Observation: The barge as drawn has a beam of about 50'. Here in the SF
bay there are lots of barges with beams over 80'. At six knots you're
traveling at the rate of approximately 9 feet per second. Your window of
exposure in front of one of these monsters can be as long as 9 seconds, an
eternity if you're crossing only a couple hundred feet in front of one (such
a pass must certainly be categorized as a "close call" since a couple
hundred feet might not be enough clearance).
Let's be careful out there...
Frank & Claudette Weismantel
Elverta, CA
Boatless for a little while longer
-----Original Message-----
From: trawler-world-list-bounces@XXX.XXX
[mailto:trawler-world-list-bounces@XXX.XXX]On Behalf Of Mike
Maurice
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:14 PM
To: TWL
Subject: TWL: Collision of Tug Arctic Taglu & FV Bona Vista
This is a very interesting and sobering account of the deaths of six
people aboard the FV Bona Vista.
Near Victoria BC, in 1993.
http://www.bst.gc.ca/en/reports/marine/earlier/m93w1050/m93w1050.asp
There are details and pictures and this is well worth reading,
especially the last half.
I have written about avoiding tugs, but this is special because the tug
was pushing, the overal length was about 450 feet.
On the outside coast this is rare. Not so in BC waters.
On the outside, even down to Southern California towing with long tow
lines is the norm. Up to a mile sometimes in length.
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