ACV: 'Safety systems didn't work at tipping yolk Walker'

In a press release, the Christian trade union ACV-Transcom recalls yesterday’s accident, in which a Dutch pilot and two sailors ended up in the sea near the Wandelaar pilot station after the jol (small speedboat, seen here in archive image, ed.) transporting the pilots to and from the ships capsized. According to the union, safety went wrong on several counts: the system that should have automatically put the dinghy back upright would not have worked, the lights on the Flemish colleagues’ life jackets would not have worked either, and pilotage would have resumed too soon after the incident. According to ACV-Transcom, it should first have become clear why the jol’s self-alignment system had refused service.