It has been over two months since 11 people perished in a two-boat collision at Mazaruni, but police are still to lay charges against four individuals whose negligence a Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) probe implicated in the tragedy.In mid-February,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, a MARAD report had recommended several charges be laid against the boat captain and crew members. The preliminary report had found that boat captains Devon Thomas and Cobesh Persaud, while operating unlicensed vessels,Authentic MLB Jerseys Online, failed to proceed at a safe speed,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, and operated with ‘reckless conduct’ and with inadequate life-saving equipment on board.Investigations, so far,Cheap Jerseys, have revealed that Captains Thomas and Persaud violated sections of the River Navigation Regulations in that they conducted their vessels recklessly.MARAD found that Mr. Persaud did not possess a steersman certificate of competence to operate his vessel, while the bowman of the Mattaran, Mr. Aubrey Bowen, was not in possession of a certificate of competency.According to MARAD, the captains also violated sections of the Guyana Shipping Act (1998) and the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.“Every vessel should at all times maintain a proper lookout by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of a collision.“Both vessels failed to maintain a proper look-out,” the report stated.MARAD noted that “every vessel shall proceed at a safe speed so that she can take proper and effective action to avoid collision and be stopped within a distance appropriate to the circumstances and conditions.“Both vessels were not proceeding at a safe speed.”Investigations also revealed that Captain Cobesh Persaud was proceeding according to the regulation which stated that “a vessel proceeding along the course of a narrow channel or fairway shall keep as near to the outer limit of the channel or fairway which lies on her starboard side as is safe and practicable.”However, according to MARAD, Thomas, the other boat captain,Wholesale Jerseys From China, failed to observe this regulation. Maritime officials also found that both captains failed to navigate with caution according to a regulation which states that “a vessel nearing a bend or an area of a narrow channel or fairway where other vessels may be obscured by an intervening obstruction shall navigate with particular alertness and caution and shall sound the appropriate signal.”Eleven passengers perished in late January when two boats collided near a ‘blind turn’ in the vicinity of Crab Falls,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Mazaruni.One of the vessels was reportedly equipped with two 200-horsepower (HP) engines while the other had two 75-horsepower engines. The approach speed of the two vessels was said to have been in excess of 100 miles per hour.