A hero Scots dad died after falling into the water while trying to help a prawn trawler colleague who had been thrown overboard amid stormy weather, a report has found. Lachlan ‘Lachie’ Robertson reached down to try and grab the hand of the senior deckhand, who had gotten into difficulty while trying to recover one of the vessel’s nets.
But the 61-year-old fell into the water after adverse weather caused the boat to roll on the evening of June 24, 2021, as they tried to make their way back to Mallaig in the Highlands. Neither of the men were wearing personal flotation devices (PFD), a Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report found.
The "inexperienced" remaining crew member, the junior deckhand, managed to get the two men back onboard, however by that point the skipper was unresponsive and could not be revived despite efforts by the two deckhands and search and rescue personnel who all carried out CPR.
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