NTSB CALLS FOR STRONGER SAFETY STANDARDS FOR UNCREWED SURFACE VESSELS FOLLOWING LAKE ERIE COLLISION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following press release:

10/27/2026

​Prestige 450 Flybridge recreational vessel (left) and NOAA USV (right) underway before the collision. (Sources: Recreational vessel owner and NOAA).​​

​​WASHINGTON (October 27, 2026) - The National Transportation Safety Board issued six recommendations Tuesday to improve the perceptibility and safe operations of uncrewed surface vessels, or USV, following its investigation of a 2024 vessel collision on Lake Erie.

On Aug. 10, 2024, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab SeaTrac SP-48 uncrewed surface vessel and a privately-owned Prestige 450 Flybrid...