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From: Ron Rogers (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 22 2004 - 20:13:00 EST
Same findings for the Arctic Rose. It was certified for one type of fish
processing and was performing a different function in reality. Every darn
recommendation ended in - we'll recommend it to the folks who make up the
Rules for Voluntary Compliance. The accident review board had recommended
mandatory compliance for all deficiencies. Many recommendations were
referred to the USCG inspection folks to alert them to look for things.
However, it was my impression (distorted by poor memory) that they were in
the crabbing fishery and she was possibly top-heavy carrying a large number
of traps for which she was not designed. However, a sistership came to her
aid and recovered the captain's body. So the sistership was not affected by
the forces impacting Artic Rose and was probably in a different phase of
operations. The key finding, I thought, was that her sistership and other
vessels in the area did not have an alarmed satellite receiver to receive
the USCG's alert message concerning the activation of the Arctic Rose's 406
EPIRB. They finally reached her sistership via the Seattle-based owner's
comms. It turns out that everybody was running legal equipment and the USCG
has to negotiate a change to the International Rules governing these
satellite communications. All this delayed her sistership's response on
seen. They were commended for their response, once notified.
The USCG is stretched with its new priority of Homeland Defense. Let's hope
that they get a budget commensurate with their additional missions. That
would be a first! Fishing is dangerous and like farming, you don't always
get a bumper crop. IMHO the owner's average profit is low enough to
influence the USCG's willingness to impose mandatory improvements requiring
vessel modification. Of course, there are families wondering what their
relatives lives are worth.
With the new satellite studies confirming that rogue waves exist and are far
more prevalent than previously thought, Arctic Rose could have been perfect
and gotten rolled with a hatch or door open. That was also speculated upon
in both incidents.
Ron Rogers
Willard 40 AIRBORNE
Lying Annapolis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Maurice" <>
| I was reading the USCG report on the sinking(Perfect Storm). It seems that
| the boat had been modified but the documentation had not been updated.
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| Sec. 67.167 Requirement for exchange of Certificate of Documentation.
| .......
| (1) The gross or net tonnages or dimensions of the vessel change;
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| The report recommended that the owner be cited for failure to update the
| documentation. If you are modifying a documented vessel in the manner
| mentioned in the item (1) above, then you can be fined for failure to
| update the document. This may not come to light unless there is an
accident
| or some kind of investigation, which could be triggered by a disgruntled,
| somebody. By dimensions, I would assume the ones specified on the
| document: draft, beam, length, GT and NT.
|
| This is one of those subtle little bits of marine law that I was not aware
of.
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