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Valve failure on Canadian shrimp trawler prompts investigation

MV Osprey Ltd. CEO Jeff Simms asserts that his 260-foot trawler was never in peril, but what concerns him most is an emergency valve that failed to work as expected

By Barb Dean-Simmons | Jan. 11, 2024 17:57 GMT
The Northern Osprey III is owned by Cape Breton, Nova Scotia-based company M.V. Osprey Ltd. Photo from M.V. Osprey website
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Jeff Simms, the CEO of MV Osprey Ltd., a joint venture shrimp harvesting firm, asserts that his company's 260-foot trawler and its 30-person crew were never in peril off the South Labrador coast, as reported by some local media. [...]

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