2018 Volume 138 Pages 12-19
There are many cases when a fishing skipper dies by a collision between a fishing vessels and a merchant vessel. Act on Preventing Collision at Sea require vessels to keep a proper lookout at all times. However, as fishing vessels can't always employ an Officer of the Watch(OOW), bad lookouts are the cause of many collisions.
This paper examined cases when vessels didn't keep proper look out between fishing vessels and merchant vessels in the judgment of Japan marine accident inquiries. As a result of the examination, it was clear that there was “prejudice” in the stage before "risk of collision" in both vessels.
This paper pointed out the problems of “prejudice,” and also suggested to get measures for accidents according to prejudice.
