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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2015.21.1.057

A Study on the Marine Accidents' Prevention of Korean Fishing Vessel which Foreign Seafarers are on board  

Chong, Dae-Yul (Mokpo Maritime Safety Tribunal)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.21, no.1, 2015 , pp. 57-63 More about this Journal
Abstract
Foreign seafarers have embarked on the fishing vessels as industrial trainees since 1990s and the total number of foreign seafarers on merchant ships and fishing vessels marked 21,327 as of the end of 2013. Especially, in case of deep-sea fishing vessels and coastal/inshore fishing vessels, although the number of fishing vessels decreased, the number of foreign seafarers nearly doubled during recent 5 years. Looking at the marine accidents occurred to fishing vessels, after multinational seafarers are joining on board fishing vessels, difficulties in communication among seafarers has become a major issue. And the safety rules which could be understandable by foreign seafarers are not provided and the education and training for foreign seafarers are not properly conducted either. Consequently, the risk of marine accidents during fishing operation on fishing vessels has increased and emergency response under the captain's control was not effective enough to cope with such emergency situation. Several forced labour issues were also reported resulting from abusive words and assault committed by Korean seafarers. Therefore, This study aims first to review the cases of marine accidents on board fishing vessels which foreign seafarers are working and, the problems concerning employment and education for those foreign seafarers, and then to point out the necessity of conducting training on the safety rules and regular emergency drills for the foreign seafarers in order to prevent marine accidents.
Keywords
Fishing vessel; Foreign seafarers; Deep-sea fishing vessel; Coastal/inshore fishing vessel; Marine accident; Education and Training; Communication; Safety rules; Emergency drill;
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