Harjvan Bhikhabhai Kharva and Ravindra Shavirang Bagal

I adopt his submission and recommend that Orkney Harbour Authority should review its rules with a view to ensuring that there is no scope for ambiguity as to whether or not it is a port requirement that ships should have an anchor ready for use when within Orkney Harbour limits whether or not a vessel is under pilotage.

If such a regulation is to be effected then it is quite clear that in adverse conditions Masters must steer a course which minimises a risk to seaman on an exposed deck and have a programme of preparation for sea which ensures that all work needed to be done on the foredeck is prioritised to minimise the risk to seamen in exposed conditions.