Featured Investigations - Marine

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) investigates for the purpose of advancing transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

Capsizing and Loss of Life
Small Fishing Vessel Sea Urchin
Newman Sound, Newfoundland and Labrador
04 November 2007

Communiques

2009-03-03

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada Again Finds Stability is The Number One Safety Issue for Fishing Vessels

Report

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Related Recommendations

M03-05	The Board recommends that the Department of Transport require all new inspected small fishing vessels of closed construction to submit stability data for approval (M03-05).
M03-06	The Board recommends that the Department of Transport require all existing inspected small fishing vessels currently without any approved stability data be subjected to a roll period test and corresponding freeboard verification not later than their next scheduled quadrennial inspection (M03-06).
M03-07	The Board recommends that the Department of Transport, in collaboration with the fishing community, reduce unsafe practices by means of a code of best practices for small fishing vessels, including loading and stability, and that its adoption be encouraged through effective education and awareness programs (M03-07).