He inadvertently became caught in a coil of back rope and, despite the efforts of his crew mates, was pulled overboard. In this case, Mark was one of the three men who were working in concert at a table to manually launch creel out of the shooting door by attaching the creel to a rope that was paying out aft of the boat. As a result of the adverse weather and sea conditions which prevailed that evening, it was this method that was being employed, requiring the concerted and coordinated efforts of three crewmen to manually shoot the creels.' 'As an alternative, the shooting door would be closed and the creels were shot manually via a hatch, another rectangular opening situated higher in the vessel’s hull, the sill of the hatch being about waist height for the crewmen. However, in adverse weather conditions, the vessel tended to take on too much water across its working deck given the proximity of the shooting door to the waterline. 'In these situations, the creels would exit the vessel via a ‘shooting door’ – a hatch cut into the vessel’s starboard hull midships at deck level. 'During its refit, the North Star was modified to enable the creels to be deployed by a "self-shooting" method which was not as labour intensive as ,' the the COPFS narrative to court said. In August 2017, the vessel underwent an extensive refit. Scrabster Seafoods Limited purchased the North Star – its first venture into fishing vessel ownership – in November 2016. On 5 February 2018, the North Star (WK673) creel fishing vessel was deploying, or ‘shooting’, creel about 16 miles north-west of Cape Wrath in the far north of Scotland. With the help of the narrative to court supplied by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), we look at the background to this tragedy. Mark’s crewmates brought him back on board 10 minutes later but efforts to resuscitate him proved unsuccessful. Twenty-six year-old fisherman Mark Elder was working for Scrabster Seafood Ltd on its North Star creel fishing vessel when he inadvertently became caught in a coil of back rope and was pulled overboard. We look at the background to a case where a young fisherman was pulled overboard and lost his life, while his employer was fined £80,000.
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