Commercial Passenger RIB collision Firth of Forth

[the_fifer]

There are local reports of the 2 commercial passenger RIB's that work out of Anstruther having collided with one another on Tuesday this week.

The boats were reported to be playing in the wash of a local passenger ferry when they came together resulting in at least one passenger being admitted to hospital in a serious condition.

MAIB are investigating.

[markmullen]

Not good.

I imagine being part of an MAIB investigation as being not much fun at all.

[BigRib]

That does not sound good, Does anyone know if this this the same company that had to go through a court case a while ago for injuring a passenger on a Rib out of Anstruther?

Judgment

[Poly]

Originally Posted by BigRib

That does not sound good, Does anyone know if this this the same company that had to go through a court case a while ago for injuring a passenger on a Rib out of Anstruther?

Judgment

I don't know anything about the new incident, but as I understand it Calypso (who were involved in the old one) only provide commercial services not "passenger" services. There are a couple of firms operating "tour" type boats from Anstruther and assume it was one of these from the OP's account.

[69cmw]

Originally Posted by BigRib

That does not sound good, Does anyone know if this this the same company that had to go through a court case a while ago for injuring a passenger on a Rib out of Anstruther?



Judgment

Why don't you ask them?

[Rogue Wave]

Originally Posted by markmullen

Not good.

I imagine being part of an MAIB investigation as being not much fun at all.

Call me old fashioned but I suspect its probably not much fun for the seriously injured customer either.

I would hope the investigation is thorough and not much fun and that the other commercial operators learn from these errors.

[the_fifer]

The MAIB site names the boats as Osprey and Osprey II which are run by Isle of May boat trips (Boat Trips, near St Andews, Dundee � Edinburgh)