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Fishing Fatalities: Were Lessons Learned?



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  • Personal Author:
    Backus A
  • Description:
    The year 2004 ended sadly with elected officials joining hundreds of fishermen and their families in mourning the loss of five men aboard the 75' Northern Edge when the scalloper went down on Dec. 20. Among the mourners was Pedro Furtado, 22, the sole survivor who jumped from the sinking vessel and managed to get to and inflate the life raft. Just one year earlier, on Dec. 13, 2003, three New Bedford fishermen were lost when the 72' scalloper Atlanta sank. Since that time, in addition to the Northern Edge crew, there have been three deaths in the New England region. On Aug. 26, tuna fisherman Bradley Richardson of Chatham, MA and his boat, the 33' Avaricious, disappeared. That incident was followed by the loss of Wayne Ingham, 54, and Michael Leonardo, 45, both of Fairhaven, MA, who perished on Sept. 3 when the 37' clam vessel Nancy Christine rolled over and sank. All 11 fishermen left grieving family and friends wondering what went wrong. The Avaricious sent no distress call or EPIRB signal and nothing from the vessel was recovered. The inflatable life raft belonging to the Nancy Christine was found during the search and apparently inflated automatically, as designed, but the crew did not abandon ship. The sinking of the 44' Canadian Mist qualified as one of a number of near-misses in 2004 that were the result of more favorable circumstances and luck for sure; but also because of proper safety preparation on the part of the crew. On Nov. 4, after taking a series of waves over the stern, the vessel was swamped. The four fishermen aboard had just enough time to place a distress call, don their survival suits, and jump. The life raft inflated and they were able to get into it. Signals from the EPIRB guided Coast Guard rescuers to the fishermen's position. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    0273-6713
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Report
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20061940
  • Citation:
    Commercial Fish News 2005 Feb; :7B
  • Contact Point Address:
    Ann Backus, MS, Director of Outreach, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA
  • Email:
    abackus@hohp.harvard.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2005
  • Performing Organization:
    Harvard School of Public Health
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20030701
  • Source Full Name:
    Commercial Fisheries News
  • End Date:
    20050630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:227648fb841b4d0ec873d94711a469fe7acc8b71110fdc10d867a39de4d59af4c4a1933f70c8b0d3e3f9b1fc1e120a75d4fada07290375b3b140e9ec81b115a8
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