What happened? At a seafood processing warehouse in Sydney, an employee arrived at work in the early hours of the morning and as usual began setting up the processing machinery for the day. The afternoon prior, some maintenance was carried out on a conveyor by the...
What Happened On a 5-week reef trip, we noticed that one of our deckhands seemed unlike himself. We learned that his spouse was not coping well at home. We knew that to look after our mate we needed to cancel the trip and return home. This financially and emotionally...
What Happened Four fishers were out at sea when one of them fell overboard. Without thinking, a second fisher jumped into the water to help his mate, but he also found himself struggling to get back on the boat. The third fisher, and then the skipper jumped in to try...
What happened? Whilst we often consider weather conditions in terms of things like swell and wind when we go to sea, we sometimes fail to consider other elements that can affect our trips significantly, like fog, heavy rainfall, mist, etc. Whilst these elements will...
What happened? After a long fishing trip, we took some of our equipment onshore with us to sort it out at a later time because we were tired and ready to head home for a warm shower before completing our usual checks. On our next trip, we realised that some of the...
What happened? Once whilst out at sea, I was securing the baits onto small hooks, and the line suddenly became tangled. As it tangled, one of the small hooks tore through my pinky finger. Thankfully, on this occasion, I was working with small hooks, a larger one could...
