A number of Irish safety rules were broken aboard a Spanish-owned but Irish-registered fishing trawler which sank off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of three crew.
An investigation by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board has found that had the regulations been properly observed, the outcome might have been different.
None of the officers aboard had valid certificates under Irish requirements, even though the boat was sailing under the Irish flag.
The 25-metre stern trawler Dinish was 'a flagship' - Spanish-owned but operated using Irish registration obtained by the Spanish-owned Erinova Fisheries.
It set up in Castletownbere in west Cork with IDA grants.
The registration was retained when it was later sold on to another Spanish company, Castletown Fisheries, enabling Spanish boats to catch fish from the Irish quota.
On 22 May 2006, under the Irish flag, the trawler sailed from Vigo in Spain with a crew of ten for three months' fishing off the south-west of Ireland.
Two nights later it flooded, capsized and sank. Six crew members were rescued from a liferaft, the Master and another, who later died, were taken from the water.
Two other crew members were never found.
