View the October news bulletin in full: IIMS News Bulletin October 2022 (pdf format) or click to read it in eReader format.
There is a new feature in this month’s news bulletin. For the first time, we have added QR codes, which can be easily scanned with your device to give you instant access to online material.
Mid last month, once I had reviewed the number of incidents, accidents, and mishaps that came into my inbox during August, I was shocked. Those of you who read my news bulletin introductions regularly will recall I highlighted a significant number of superyacht fires a couple of months ago. That all now seems rather tame by comparison to August’s list of fires, sinkings, groundings and tragedies. This prompted me to write a short blog entitled “Carnage at sea in August. What’s happened and why?”
Tom Elder MIIMS was Chairman of the IIMS Yacht & Small Craft Working Group Scotland. News reached me recently informing me of his death. I am grateful to his wife, Moira, and his friend Cameron Johnstone, for helping me to compile his obituary which you can read in this bulletin.