Sea Safety No 2 (October 2005 )

Number 2 (October 2005)

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Group Co-ordinator and Bulletin Editor

Hugh Walton

Production

Pacific Community, Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Information Section, SPC, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.

Produced with financial assistance from France.

Editorial

Promoting Safe Operational Plans

Welcome to the second edition of the SPC Sea Safety Special Interest Group. We received some very positive endorsement from readers of the first bulletin, especially in relation to the information on EPIRBS.

This bulletin features the promotion of Safe Operational Plans (SOPs) for small craft as a means of ensuring vessel operators are always prepared to deal with problems that might occur at sea. The technology feature for this bulletin focuses on simple but potentially effective innovations that are inexpensive, easy to store and could well save lives.

In preparing this bulletin, I had hoped for wider inputs from recipients of the bulletin with some more stories from around the region. Can I issue a challenge to readers with safety interest stories to tell, to put them on paper and get them to me for publication. I am particularly interested in receiving comments in regard to the article on compliance with UNCLOS and incidents of rescues not being carried out, as well as discussion on the possibility of a missing boats register.

I hope you find this second bulleting interesting and
useful and I look forward to your feedback.

Hugh Walton