Marine Strike Survey

[damianfoxall]

MARINE STRIKE LOG SURVEY
Take the Survey
Participate in this anonymous survey about collisions at sea between sailing vessels and marine life.

• ENGLISH
• FRANÇAIS
• DEUTSCH
• ESPAÑOL
• PORTUGUÊS

Why Reporting Matters
Reporting what we see on the water:

• PROTECTS MARINE LIFE Help identify high-risk areas to minimize harm to whales and other marine species
• IMPROVES CREW SAFETY Reporting supports safer sailing by reducing risks to other crews and vessels
• RAISES AWARENESS TO FIND SOLUTIONS Help highlight the true scale of collisions, often underreported

Reporting is Anonymous and Confidential
All reported strike details are compiled in the confidential Marine Strike Log, and synchronized anonymously with the International Whaling Commission strike database.

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The Marine Mammal Advisory Group is supported by 11thHourracing.org, and coordinated by FoxallMunro.com , is a cohort of stakeholders established to collaborate on the protection of biodiversity, and explore solutions to strikes and collisions for the sailing & boating sector.

The Marine strike survey is being distributed in 5 languages this year to the sailing community as part of a sector-wide distribution, including mainstream sailing media, and direct to yacht clubs and forums.

Participating in the survey is voluntary, as such, it is the individual who can decide to participate, and give as much or as little information as possible.
The results of this survey will be anonymized and compiled in the Marine Strike Log, a global dataset of incidents between sailing vessels and marine life. This anonymized data may be provided to authorized end-users for scientific purposes. Only authorised end-users have access to this anonymised information.

Thank you
Damian Foxall
info@mmag.world

 

[dLj]

Now that's a garbage survey. Nice idea but really badly written. There is no option for never having struck a sea creature. What a shame. Could have been interesting research rather than ... Well... I'm just going to shut up now...

dj

 

[damianfoxall]

Now that's a garbage survey. Nice idea but really badly written. There is no option for never having struck a sea creature. What a shame. Could have been interesting research rather than ... Well... I'm just going to shut up now...

dj

Hi DJ
Thank you for your input

The survey follows a pre-established list of questions which was originally run by a survey in 2008, the answers directly feed into the standard fields of the International Whaling Commission database.

Specific to your question 'option for never having struck a sea creature' , this is addressed in Question 25 of the survey, where you can choose the type of interaction: Observation, Near-miss, Collision.

This work to date has already resulted in establishing the most comprehensive global database of collisions between sailing vessel and marine life or objects, which is going to build our understanding of the scale of the issue, and the actions needed to mitigate the risk for marine life and sailors.

If you have useful data to provide, then I encourage you to participate.

Thank you
Damian

 

[dLj]

Hi DJ
Thank you for your input

The survey follows a pre-established list of questions which was originally run by a survey in 2008, the answers directly feed into the standard fields of the International Whaling Commission database.

Specific to your question 'option for never having struck a sea creature' , this is addressed in Question 25 of the survey, where you can choose the type of interaction: Observation, Near-miss, Collision.

This work to date has already resulted in establishing the most comprehensive global database of collisions between sailing vessel and marine life or objects, which is going to build our understanding of the scale of the issue, and the actions needed to mitigate the risk for marine life and sailors.

If you have useful data to provide, then I encourage you to participate.

Thank you
Damian

I frankly couldn't care less if this is an "established" survey - the original was also badly written if that's what you followed.

First you say it's an "anonymous" survey but there is nothing "anonymous" when your first required questions are names and boat identifican.

Second issue I have is, you say you are looking to determine how pervasive is this issue - yet you have no questions relating to time, distances traveled and that sort of data.

How do you normalize the data to actual time/distance traveled to determine the pervasiveness? How do you capture that, for example in my case, I have close to 5 decades of ocean sailing and 10's of thousand of ocean miles and I have never hit a sea creature?

Have I seen them? Sure almost every day I have sailed.

This is not a serious survey and will do nothing to advance the science as you have posited above.

dj

 

[pgandw]

I opened the survey and read through it. I was disappointed. The only strike I have ever had was a shark who was attracted to our 25ft boat by the smell of meat juice that had gotten in the ice box discharge. This was in the Bahamas (I don't remember where). The shark struck the rudder and the bottom of the boat - we saw some bottom paint rubbed off on parts of him. I only figured out what had happened because I was wondering why a shark would want to come so close to our boat - I had never seen that behavior before. Obviously the survey didn't have any way to identify this as different from a whale strike, not did the reason for the strike seem to matter.

 

[damianfoxall]

I opened the survey and read through it. I was disappointed. The only strike I have ever had was a shark who was attracted to our 25ft boat by the smell of meat juice that had gotten in the ice box discharge. This was in the Bahamas (I don't remember where). The shark struck the rudder and the bottom of the boat - we saw some bottom paint rubbed off on parts of him. I only figured out what had happened because I was wondering why a shark would want to come so close to our boat - I had never seen that behavior before. Obviously the survey didn't have any way to identify this as different from a whale strike, not did the reason for the strike seem to matter.

Hi Pgandw - Questions 33-35 offer you the option to identify the species.
Thank you
Damian

 

[pgandw]

Damian - that's exactly the point. You really want me to remember the species of shark when it's bumping the rudder and bottom of my 25ft boat in open water in the Bahamas? I was terrified, and I wanted that shark to go away. When I guessed at the source, I threw the package of steaks overboard, and the shark went away. The incident took place in Oct of 1979. Because it was the Bahamas, open water, and the size of the shark (8ft?), it was most likely a tiger shark. But that's circumstance, not evidence.

Your survey asks all kinds of questions that most people can't answer, if they actually have a strike from a large shark or whale. People are interested in survival, not details for surveys. And yet you want to use the gathered "statistics" to promote a cause of some kind.

 

[damianfoxall]

Damian - that's exactly the point. You really want me to remember the species of shark when it's bumping the rudder and bottom of my 25ft boat in open water in the Bahamas? I was terrified, and I wanted that shark to go away. When I guessed at the source, I threw the package of steaks overboard, and the shark went away. The incident took place in Oct of 1979. Because it was the Bahamas, open water, and the size of the shark (8ft?), it was most likely a tiger shark. But that's circumstance, not evidence.

Your survey asks all kinds of questions that most people can't answer, if they actually have a strike from a large shark or whale. People are interested in survival, not details for surveys. And yet you want to use the gathered "statistics" to promote a cause of some kind.

Hi

 

[damianfoxall]

Hi

Hi, Most questions are optional, and only input that respondents can answer are expected.