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A fatal collision last year between a Coast Guard cutter and a small fishing boat off Puerto Rico resulted from the crews of both vessels failing to maintain a proper lookout, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported in its recent findings about the Aug. 8, 2022, accident. The NTSB called on the Coast Guard to equip its cutters with voyage data recorders - after its investigators were frustrated by the refusal of some ranking cutter crewmembers to talk about what led to the collision between the Winslow Griesser, a 154' fast response cutter, and the Desakata, a 23' center console boat. The incident took place four miles off Dorado, Puerto Rico, on the north coast of the island. Fisherman Carlos Rosario died and his brother Samuel Rosario Beltran was injured in the accident. While faulting both the cutter crew and fishermen for failing to keep adequate lookout, the NTSB report also suggests that a radar reflector or Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponder on the Desakata might have alerted the cutter crew and fishermen that they were on a collision course. |