Lack of toilet aboard ‘danger’ boat cost fisherman his life, inquiry rules - Transport - Scotsman.com: MARINE accident experts have slammed the “sustained and consistent disregard” for safety displayed by the operators of a Scottish scallop dredger, following their investigation into the death of a crewman a year ago off the Welsh coast.
Steven Robertson, 25, from Dalbeattie, was lost overboard from the Kirkcudbright-based scallop boat, St Amant, on 13 January last year.The search for Mr Robertson, who had not been wearing a lifejacket, was called off without any trace being found of him in Caernarfon Bay.A report issued by the government’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has revealed that Mr Robertson probably fell overboard and drowned when he went on to the vessel’s deck to relieve himself in the middle of the night because there was no toilet on board the 59ft dredger for the four-man crew.
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