Reports
The purpose of maritime safety investigations conducted by the Maritime Accident Investigation Office (GAMA) is not to determine who failed, but to understand how the system produced the observed outcomes, identify opportunities for learningpromote lasting improvements in the safety of navigation, the protection of human life at seathe protection of the maritime environment. GAMA&rsquos investigations seek to explain, learnimprove, never to apportion blameliability.
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Date of the incident: 01-03-2014
BALTICDIEP - Serious Maritime Casualty
Loss of Directional Control and impact with the North Breakwater during entry into the Port of Aveiro under adverse conditions. -
Date of the incident: 09-09-2014
BASÓFIAS Acidente Marítimo Grave
BASÓFIAS lost steering control after a semi-submerged tree branch became lodged in its waterjet steering system. The skipper anchored the vessel, and all four passengers were subsequently evacuated without injury. -
Date of the incident: 06-12-2013
BEAGLE - Serious Maritime Casualty
Night-time grounding following coastal navigation without adequate charts, improper use of the autopilotabandonment of the lookout. -
Date of the incident: 20-02-2023
BG RUBY - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
Unwitnessed fall overboard while carrying out container-securing work alone, resulting in one fatality. -
Date of the incident: 20-03-2014
BRITES - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
Failure of an undersized steel wire rope during trawl recovery, causing a whipping movementone fatality. -
Date of the incident: 20-01-2022
BRUTIMAR - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
Fall between the quaythe vessel during embarkation without a gangway, resulting in a fatality. -
Date of the incident: 16-03-2026
CAMINHO DA BOA VIAGEM - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
Rapid water ingress during normal fishing operations led to loss of stability, a starboard list, capsizingthe total loss of the vessel. All eight crew members abandoned the vesselwere rescued by nearby fishing vessels. One crew member was injured. -
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Date of the incident: 22-06-2025
CARMEN - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
Uncontrolled engine-room flooding caused loss of propulsion, electrical powerpumping capacity, followed by abandonment, capsizingtotal loss. All 11 crew members were rescued safely. -
Date of the incident: 26-01-2024
CASTRO - Very Serious Maritime Casualty
CASTRO rolled heavily during net hauling, shipped seawater through its low freeboardflooded through an open machinery-space hatch. The vessel capsizedwas a total loss. -
Date of the incident: 13-07-2015
CAVALEIRO - Very Serious Maritime casualty
CAVALEIRO grounded on rocks off Peniche while navigating on autopilot at night. All six crew members were evacuated by helicopterthe vessel was a total loss. -
Date of the incident: 21-12-2013
COCHICHO - Very serious Maritime Casualty
COCHICHO capsized after being struck by a large breaking wave while returning to Lisbon a recreational fishing voyage. Six persons diedone survived.