Draft report into Pisces tragedy suggests boat was unseaworthy

LIVES were lost aboard an inshore pleasure fishing boat off Wexford last summer due to the absence of an inflatable life raft and a lack of life jackets, a draft marine report reveals.

The independent Marine Casualty Investigations Board’s final report into the Pisces tragedy, which claimed five lives, is due to be published next week.

But a draft report, delivered to interested parties including the victims’ families, suggested the 26-ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.