Coast Guard cutter crew terminates voyage BOSTON – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Grand Isle terminated the voyage of the fishing vessel My Coll seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The fishing vessel, with two people on board, was sent back to port for a lack of survival equipment. There were no immersion suits on board, the life raft’s certification expired, there was no hydrostatic release on the life raft and the crew was missing flares. law. “A combination of deficiencies add up to a very dangerous situation waiting to happen,” said Bob Higgins, commercial boating safety specialist for the Coast Guard. “If something were to happen on that boat, the life raft wouldn’t release, both people on board would be in the water without immersion suits and they’d have no way to signal potential rescuers. This time of year fishermen need to heed the season and equip their vessels and crew properly to survive the unexpected.” The water temperature on scene was 54 degrees fahrenheit. An average person has about a 60% change of surviving for four hours in water that cold. Coast Guard cutter crew terminates voyage BOSTON – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Grand Isle terminated the voyage of the fishing vessel My Coll seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The fishing vessel, with two people on board, was sent back to port for a lack of survival equipment. There were no immersion suits on board, the life raft’s certification expired, there was no hydrostatic release on the life raft and the crew was missing flares. law. “A combination of deficiencies add up to a very dangerous situation waiting to happen,” said Bob Higgins, commercial boating safety specialist for the Coast Guard. “If something were to happen on that boat, the life raft wouldn’t release, both people on board would be in the water without immersion suits and they’d have no way to signal potential rescuers. This time of year fishermen need to heed the season and equip their vessels and crew properly to survive the unexpected.” The water temperature on scene was 54 degrees fahrenheit. An average person has about a 60% change of surviving for four hours in water that cold.
