Hazard spot
Cap Blanc and Mauritania: Shallows and grounding
Cap Blanc and Mauritania: Wide sandbanks and several wrecks lie off this coast and the charts are partly old. Unlit fishing boats are added at night.
- Cause
- Shallows and grounding
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 20° 48,0' N 017° 12,0' W
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Cap Blanc and Mauritania: how the place works
Off the Mauritanian coast lie wide banks reaching far offshore, and the charts here are markedly less accurate than in Europe. The Banc d'Arguin is a national park with its own rules, and fishing with unlit boats and nets is routine.
Cap Blanc and Mauritania: what breaks there
Grounding on an uncharted bank and nets in the propeller are the typical cases. Both happen at night, and both are hard to resolve on this coast: yard and diver are hundreds of miles away.
Cap Blanc and Mauritania: what this means for your policy
Settle how far salvage costs extend and whether they are paid in addition to the sum insured. On this coast that decides whether a boat is repaired or abandoned.
Read this in full: A grounding is not a small claimCruising range
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