The RNLI and Selfish are hosting a fishermen’s safety event in Weymouth on 26 October to demonstrate a man overboard safety exercise.
Fishing remains the UK’s most dangerous peacetime profession, with nine fishermen’s lives lost at sea in the first six months of this year.
The event will aim to encourage the observance of best practise safety procedures on board commercial fishing vessels.
Local fishermen, Bob Summerhayes, on board an inshore fishing vessel will show attendees the correct way to recover someone who has gone overboard.
This will highlight why it is so important for all vessel owners, skippers and crew to practise, review and update safety procedures on a regular basis.
Seafish and the RNLI Fishing Safety Team will be offering personal floatation device (PFD) servicing and training for fishermen, giving free PFDs to those in attendance who do not already own the essential piece of kit.
The RNLI Community Sea Safety team will also be present with their safety trailer offering free safety advice.
In addition to this, David Passmore, proprietor of Protec-Fire will provide firefighting advice for fishermen on how to extinguish fires in the often confined space of a commercial fishing vessel.
It will take place at Weymouth Harbour (near the Pavilion carpark at the end of the seafront) on Wednesday 26 October from 2-4pm.
