Commodore Goodwill v L’Ecume II (8 December 2022)

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​Request 759812814 

Commodore Goodwill v L'Ecume II (8 December 2022)

Please answer the following questions in relation to the above maritime collision:

A. Did the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development personally decide who would lead the investigation, or was the decision made under a standing delegation or protocol?

B. Which bodies have formally investigated this event (including safety, criminal, and regulatory)? Please outline the timelines of their involvement.

C. Were any external organisations (for example, the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch) invited to assist or provide technical expertise? If so, what was their role?

D. Did the States of Jersey Police conduct their investigation entirely independently, or did collaboration take place between the Bahamas Maritime Authority or Ports of Jersey?

E. If information or evidence was shared between the police, BMA, and Ports of Jersey, please describe the mechanisms for doing so (e.g., MoU/LOA).

F. The Bahamas Maritime Authority published an Interim Report on 17 November 2023. Has a final investigation report been completed?

G. Has the Government of Jersey received the full BMA investigation findings? If so, when?

H. Will an IMO-compliant final report be published in the public domain? If so, when? 

Response 

A. ​​The Minister instructed the Harbour Master by way of Ministerial Decisions (MD-ETS-2022-779 and MD-ETS-2023-832) to commence a maritime safety investigation and to collaborate with other interested parties in completion of that investigation.

The following bodies have investigated this event:

• Maritime safety investigation conducted jointly by the Ports of Jersey (as coastal state and as the flag state for L'Ecume II) and the Bahamas Maritime Authority (as flag state for the Commodore Goodwill). The Maritime Industry Authority of the Philippines was a 'substantially interested' state party in that investigation due to loss of life of two seafarers of Philippines nationality.
• Criminal investigation conducted the States of Jersey Police. 
  

B. The requested information is not held by the Department for the Economy. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.