Wednesday 2 October 2024
There were 82 reported incidents involving domestic commercial vessels in August.
August 2024 incident report
A spinner filter failed, resulting in a fire in an engine room, and a crew member was badly injured while assisting with anchoring duties. These are some of the occurrences included in the latest incident report.
During August 2024, there were 82 reported incidents involving domestic commercial vessels. Of these, 17 were serious and one was very serious.
Read the latest incident report.
Monthly safety lesson
Trawler inpull winch reduces risk of person overboard
This safety lesson describes how experienced Queensland prawn trawl fisher, Tony Sterling, developed an inpull winch that pulls in both sides of the trawl gear at the same time. Introducing an inpull winch means crew don't need to go out on the booms.
Read the monthly safety lesson.