| The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reports that "On 08 July 2002 at about 0649, while enroute from Port Hardy, to Comox, British Columbia, the fishing vessel Fritzi-Ann, sailing light with 500 prawn traps on deck, capsized while attempting to counter strong tidal rips in the vicinity of Kelsey Bay Harbour. All three crew members abandoned the vessel using the liferaft and were rescued soon after by the fishing vessel Serena Joye. The vessel was righted two days later. No one was injured." "The Fritzi-Ann is a small wooden carvel-built fishing vessel of closed construction with a rounded bilge. The wheelhouse, crew accommodation and engine-room space are located forward of midships. An insulated fish hold, a small freezer compartment and the lazaret are located aft. The fish hold is divided into six sections by portable pen boards and it has a fibreglass weathertight hatch cover. Below the main deck, the hull is subdivided by three transverse watertight bulkheads into the following compartments: forward crew accommodation space, engine room, fish hold, and lazaret space. Fuel oil wing tanks are located at the port and starboard sides of both the engine room and the lazaret space. The freshwater tank is located between the fuel oil wing tanks in the lazaret space. An aluminum platform, extending approximately 1.67 m aft of the extreme after end of the weather deck, is used to store prawn traps. An aluminum railing surrounds the perimeter of the extension. The wheelhouse is equipped with navigation and communications gear including two radar sets and a video plotter, two very high frequency (VHF) radios, a global positioning system (GPS), autopilot, and depth sounders. The radar sets interface with an electronic chart display system." |
