{"id":48714,"date":"2014-10-14T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de38d14fb5c87c2ab5091be094df8636"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:27:00","slug":"press-release-crew-member-of-newlyn-fishing-boat-failed-to-keep-lookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48714","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Crew member of Newlyn fishing boat failed to keep lookout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At a hearing on Friday 10 October at Bodmin Magistrates Court, Andrew Cowan-Dickie , a crew member of the Newlyn based trawler, James R H Stevenson, pleaded guilty to failing to keep a proper lookout which resulted in a collision with another vessel.  <\/p>\n<p>He was fined \u00a31,000, with \u00a31,000 in costs and a \u00a3100 victim surcharge, following an investigation by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. In sentencing, magistrates took into account Mr Cowan-Dickie\u2019s previous good character.<\/p>\n<p>On 25 March this year, the James R H Stevenson left Newlyn harbour with four crew on board and headed towards fishing grounds south of Cornwall.  Mr Cowan-Dickie took over as the Officer of the Watch and was the only person on the bridge.  At 4:30pm that afternoon the vessel was in collision with a 2,000-tonne coaster, Pommern, 14 nautical miles south of Newlyn Harbour.  <\/p>\n<p>The collision caused considerable damage to the coaster. Mr Cowan-Dickie was subsequently interviewed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency\u2019s Enforcement team and admitted that he was in control of the fishing vessel, but simply failed to see the coaster.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chris Uglow, Principal Fishing Vessel Surveyor, based at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency\u2019s Falmouth Marine Office, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When under way all vessels should keep a proper lookout at all times using all available means; it is clear in this case that this did not take place, resulting in a collision that caused significant damage, and could easily have resulted in multiple casualties and pollution along the south coast of Cornwall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notes to Editors<br \/>\nA screen-grab of the vessel track, showing the location of the collision, and an image of Pommern are available from the MCA press office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crew member of a Newlyn fishing boat has been ordered to pay a total of \u00a32,100 in fines and costs after failing to keep a proper lookout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48732,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48714\/revisions\/48732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}