| Comments | Madeleine Islands QC, December 16, 1990. The fishing trawler "M.V. Nadine" sank off the Madeleine Islands, Quebec, in high winds and three metre high waves, causing death by hypothermia of seven crew members and a fisheries researcher: there were two survivors: a coroner's report released in June 1992 blamed the loss of life and sinking of the vessel on a series of human errors: ill-fitting survival suits, malfunctioning navigational equipment, lack of automatic pumps, lack of safety measures and emergency drills for those aboard the vessel, and ship's officers untrained in emergency procedures. |