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"FORMER First Minister Alex Salmond has called on the UK Government to pay for the raising of the Nancy Glen fishing boat which sank in Loch Fyne, with the bodies of missing fishermen Duncan MacDougall and Przemek Krawczyk thought to be on board.

The Clyde Fishermen’s Association and the men’s families have started fundraising campaigns to salvage the boat so that the two men can be buried ashore, with almost £150,000 raised in just a few days.

In 1987, Salmond fronted the campaign which raised £600,000 to lift the wreck of the Peterhead-based Sapphire trawler which had the bodies of four crewmen on board.

He told The National: “Twenty years ago the families in Peterhead went through all of this and eventually had to raise the boat themselves.

“There are a number of precedents for boats to be raised when they are in shallow or inland waters and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch should step forward and say it will raise the Nancy Glen.

“It is unacceptable in terms of humanity that fishermen should be left aboard sunken vessels within eyesight of the shore. It is totally unacceptable in terms of common humanity and it should be a public responsibility for the men to be recovered and given a proper burial.”

Struggling to understand how a sunken vessel can be seen from the shore....

Having spent the days before the loss of Nancy Glen with friends in Tarbert I have a different perspective than that of B.O.B.
It is only natural that the families of the two lost men as well as the wider community want recovery of the bodies for proper funerals and that in itself justifies the calls for the wreck to recovered, in my opinion.
However, the lack of an explanation of what happened to cause the capsize makes the argument for recovery even more pressing.
There is precedent. When the Solway Harvester was lost recovery of the wreck was funded by the government of the Isle of Man. Subsequent examination found evidence which led to a prosecution and despite the failure of the court action, lessons were learned.
Similarly when the Antares sank in the Arran Trench it was only after the wreck was raised that it was confirmed her nets had been caught by the submarine Trenchant. As a result rules of operations for submarine in the vicinity of commercial vessels were changed and the SUBFAX scheme was introduced. Antares was raised from a depth of 150 metres.
The Mhairi-L was lost in the Irish Sea. The wreck was found but never recovered. The possible cause of the tragedy, her nets being caught on a seabed BT cable, remains speculation.

I'm not sure what the families have been told to expect. If / when the Nancy Glen is raised there wont be much left of the bodies - it being a prawn boat and there being prawns in the hold.

Donald

Job done then. Personally I think it's the right thing to do for a wreck in inshore waters. What a grim job for someone though.

BlowingOldBoots wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-44322253

The SNP government actions have probably made the situation a lot worse for this family: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-44322253

The inconsistency is what is pathetic, who gets to decide that a boat should be lifted or not and based on what criteria?

What would you have done if it had been your decision to make? Lift one or none?

(Had it been my decision I’d have left them be - as would be my wish If was me dead at the bottom of the sea)

BlowingOldBoots wrote: So far I don't think the SNP have explained why they cant intervene in every case.

Money.....