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=== Fishing Vessel Gaul ===
The Gaul is another example. On December 17, 2004 the UK Commissioner for Wrecks, Mr Justice Steel, released the results of a re-investigation into the 1974 sinking of the fishing trawler Gaul. The then 18-month-old state-of-the-art watertight vessel had sunk in minutes in the Barents Sea in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale|Force 9] gale and seas of only 3 m.
Based on new video footage of the wreck, the Commissioner found that it sank because two duff and offal chutes were open in the stern. A following sea poured tons of water down the chutes. When the captain realised the danger, he turned to face the wind. The beam-on waves and wind, and tons of sloshing water inside the hull caused the trawler to roll and sink with the loss of all 36 hands.
