Recent marine accident report notices

At a glance

Publisher

Marine Accident Investigation Branch

Jurisdiction

United Kingdom

Publisher updates

Current publisher feed; monitor hourly

SourceFinch checks

Hourly by default

Records per run

50 in the latest run

Record key

id

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports.atom

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 6, 2026

Verified since

October 6, 2026

Last green run

October 7, 2026

What the data contains

Captures every entry in the current Marine Accident Investigation Branch feed, with the publisher identifier as the stable record key. Publisher updated timestamps are revisions, not assumed first-publication dates or incident dates. Feed summaries are retained; linked articles, reports, attachments and crew details are not fetched. An entry leaving the rolling feed is not a withdrawal or deletion. The feed is a current window, not a complete historical archive. Product-specific maritime filtering, entity linking and enforcement assertions are excluded. SourceFinch is independent of the publisher.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field id identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 50 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 7, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/maib-reports/foundering-of-the-fishing-vessel-argos-georgia-with-the-loss-of-13-lives",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/foundering-of-the-fishing-vessel-argos-georgia-with-the-loss-of-13-lives",
    "title": "Foundering of the fishing vessel Argos Georgia with the loss of 13 lives",
    "summary": "Location: approximately 190 nautical miles east of Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-25T10:00:01+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/maib-reports/contact-of-the-roll-on-slash-roll-off-passenger-ferry-stena-estrid-with-a-jetty-resulting-in-a-hull-puncture-and-engine-room-flooding",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/contact-of-the-roll-on-slash-roll-off-passenger-ferry-stena-estrid-with-a-jetty-resulting-in-a-hull-puncture-and-engine-room-flooding",
    "title": "Contact of the roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry Stena Estrid with a jetty, resulting in a hull puncture and engine room flooding",
    "summary": "Location: Holyhead Port, Wales.",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-27T10:00:51+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/maib-reports/man-overboard-from-the-lone-operated-creel-fishing-vessel-sea-eagle-ah18-resulting-in-one-presumed-fatality",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/man-overboard-from-the-lone-operated-creel-fishing-vessel-sea-eagle-ah18-resulting-in-one-presumed-fatality",
    "title": "Man overboard from the lone-operated creel fishing vessel Sea Eagle (AH18) resulting in one presumed fatality",
    "summary": "Location: south-east of Montrose, Scotland.",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/maib-reports/grounding-and-subsequent-loss-of-the-fishing-vessel-silver-cloud-ii-wk-80",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/grounding-and-subsequent-loss-of-the-fishing-vessel-silver-cloud-ii-wk-80",
    "title": "Grounding and subsequent loss of the fishing vessel Silver Cloud II (WK 80)",
    "summary": "Location: Rubha Rodha, Lochinver, Scotland.",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-13T10:00:01+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/maib-reports/man-overboard-from-the-bulk-carrier-world-prize-with-the-loss-of-1-life",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/man-overboard-from-the-bulk-carrier-world-prize-with-the-loss-of-1-life",
    "title": "Man overboard from the bulk carrier World Prize with the loss of 1 life",
    "summary": "Location: 3.5 nautical miles east-south-east of Rönnskär, Sweden.",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-28T09:59:55+01:00"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 6b9f1e757c70422727cef45bc4c110d8bba739226d8ed4d92c0f6c346d4b40f9.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 3e6ea7f5f126daaa362b0393efd364aba6c61c3d243e397cb52fa989b9d857de, timestamped October 7, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

GOV.UK permits reuse of government feed content under OGL v3, with attribution. Personal data and third-party rights are excluded from that licence; no public individual profiles or linked article bodies are collected.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Marine Accident Investigation Branch. SourceFinch is independent of the publisher.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

23

Green

100%

Failed

0

Median run time

0.9 s

Latest run

success, October 7, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 6, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "Recent marine accident report notices",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports.atom",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "key_field": "id"
}

{
  "name": "Recent marine accident report notices",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports.atom",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "key_field": "id",
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "govuk-maib-reports",
    "version_id": "dc050655-b241-4b0f-b06d-d205b1579dd3"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/govuk-maib-reports -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get govuk-maib-reports --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("govuk-maib-reports");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor Recent marine accident report notices: get_catalog_source govuk-maib-reports,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default hourly schedule this source uses about 720 runs a month. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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