Marine transportation
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Recommendation Name
Marine transportation safety investigation report
Marine transportation safety recommendation M94-05
Reassessment of the responses to
marine transportation safety recommendation M94-05
Accessibility of emergency equipment
Background
On 02 April 1992, a small open charter boat, with four persons on board, capsized off Mara Rock, BC, throwing all four occupants into the cold water (TSB Report M92W1031). As a result, two people died from hypothermia, and the two remaining survivors were rescued, after approximately 23 hours in the water, suffering from acute hypothermia.