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From BBC Jersey last week, the above, and:
Basic safety actions “fell by the wayside” before a fatal collision involving a ferry and fishing trawler, prosecutors have said. At Jersey’s Royal Court on Friday, crown advocate Matthew Maletroit said former Condor Ferries crew members Lewis Carr and Artur Sevash-Zade failed to make safety the “paramount consideration” before the Commodore Goodwill collided with L’Ecume II.
Mr Carr, 30, and Mr Sevash-Zade, 35, both deny three counts of gross negligence manslaughter over the collision between the vessels on 8 December 2022. The incident led to the deaths of L’Ecume II’s skipper, Michael Michieli and crew members Larry Simyunn and Jervis Baligat. The trial continues.
Imagine that happened in the Clyde and a CalMac ferry was responsible? It’d be another SNP ferry fiasco. CalMac has never sunk a fishing boat. They leave that to Royal Navy submarines.
On 9 March 2025, Red Funnel [should be Red Face] ferries on the Isle of Wight cancelled sailings and disrupt travel because they spend too much on shareholder dividends and executive bonuses and thus don’t spend enough on maintenance or replacement.1
In October 2024, a late-arriving passenger was pushed into the screws, to his death, in Greece. Then the crews all went on strike for months, islanders ran out of food and, only three years before a ferry with 530 on board had sunk.2
In July 2024, a Channel Islands ferry kills French fishermen because the crew do not speak English or French well enough to warn them. Islanders run out of food, a replacement ferry cannot be berthed in bad weather and tourism collapses because the government dithers over tenders.3
In October 2024, in New Zealand, a harbourmaster is ‘bullied’ into accepting bigger ferries, unpiloted through narrows, despite four incidents of drifting out of control, running aground and hitting harbour walls in less than two years! Government cancels replacement ferries as too expensive despite these problems, and one ferry runs aground in a narrow strait because the only man on the bridge couldn’t press the override button properly.4
In 2024 and 2025, Washington State islanders miss doctor appointments, students miss classes, and car decks flood in the oldest ferries in the Western world with no replacements for years to come.5
In British Columbia, for years now, elderly ferries, high prices, dangerous crew shortages, massive delays and threats of violence toward crew. 6
I could go on. If you have the time, search the blog for Scilly, Malta, Tasmania, Korea, Croatia or Lake Ontario for further tales of ferry fiascos.
I’ve ignored Africa, Bangladesh, Philippines and Indonesia for obvious reasons – too many deaths, too much sinking.
Finally for the truth of the CalMac service, you won’t hear on the BBC or read of in the Herald, see:
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=CalMac
Sources:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Ah but, are these “Lifeline” ferries? See that’s the difference John.
OK, I accept that there may also be a perfectly adequate road links as well as the ferries but that’s not the point of the Heralds “Trusted Journalism”.
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