RICHMOND - The Transportation Safety Board is urging stronger safety procedures involving lifeboats on commercial vessels after an investigation into a 2023 incident where a boat was accidentally dropped into the water, seriously injuring an engineer.

The board says in its investigation report that an engineer on the Golden Zhejiang bulk carrier was conducting a safety check on a free-fall lifeboat in the Trincomali Channel off the British Columbia coast when the release was accidentally triggered.

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