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Marine Safety Working GroupAimTo use its collective expertise and experience to create and communicate marine safetyinformation and messages to endeavour to reduce accidents and to prevent the loss of lifeon Irish waters.Objectives■ To establish strong working relationships with other National and LocalOrganisations to create/promote accident prevention programmes.■ To establish cause and trends in accidents at sea.■ To develop accident prevention programmes.■ To provide a co-ordinated approach to the dissemination of safety informationin response to individual enquiries.■ To measure effectiveness of prevention programmes.2www.safetyonthewater.ieThe MSWG would like to thank the following people and organisations for their supportin the production of this publication:RNLI, Crewsaver, McMurdo, Pains Wessex, Practical Boat Owner, SimradPhoto credits: David Branigan (23), Patrick Roach Picture Agency (cover, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 20),Roger Turner – PhotOcean (1), David Harding (9, 11, 19, 21), PPL Ltd (13 – Alberto Mariotti, 14 – JonNash, 24 – Pickthall), RNLI (5, 15, 16, 17, 22, 25), Nicholas Leach (18), Irish Coast Guard (26).