A team from the International Transport Federation (ITF) have been at the centre of freeing a group of Ghanaian crewmen from a UK fishing vessel, and have been shocked at the mistreatment the men had suffered. (The vessel pictured in the background has no connection with the events referred to here)
The MAIB has released its report and findings following the investigation into a crabber that sank while at anchor in Mingulay Bay. Three of the crew were lost and one was able to make it to shore and was rescued.
Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, have been instrumental in locating a missing fishing vessel, at the request of the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report on the loss of scalloper JMT (M-99) which sank off Rame Head on the 9th of July last year.
An inquiry is to be held into the death of a crewman who was lost over the side of a scalloper off Shetland.
Investigators from South Korea are in the Seychelles to look into the deaths of the skipper and chief engineer of a South Korean longliner.