Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in NTSB, allision, oil, oil spill, pilotage on Nov 30th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Tagging Cosco Busan has been a good way to increase search engine hits lately but I’ll try to restrain comment until the US NTSB report thuds on my desk. One issue arising from it, though, has sparked off comments both among the [...]
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AHTS Sinks - Crew Evacuates Safely
Alam Maritim Resources Berhad HAS announced that one of its vessels had an accident on November 29, 2007.
The incident happened in the vicinity of Resak Platform [...]
Posted in Fatigue, MAIB, grounding, maritime accidents on Nov 29th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! The UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch has issued its preliminary report on the grounding of the 1,409 gross tonnes general cargo ship Fingal on 7th September 2007. Needless to say the words “fallen asleep” and “on watch alone” occur in the same paragraph.
We’ve [...]
Like us? Bookmark this article! 26 Indonesian sailors feared dead
Agence France-Presse
TAIPEI — (UPDATE) Twenty six Indonesian sailors are feared dead after their Panamanian freighter hit rough seas off Taiwan’s north coast, officials said late Wednesday.
Television images showed coast guards plucking one surviving sailor from the sea, but [...]
Posted in grounding, maritime accident casebook, pilotage, podcast on Nov 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Pilotage and bridge team management have come to the fore this month with the allison between the Cosco Busan and the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge so the latest MAC episode, The Case Of The Confused Pilot is a timely reminder of the issues [...]
Posted in P&I Club, maritime accidents on Nov 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Steve Harris, a Lloyds marine broker who trains P&I Club personnel and administers the Maritime Web Award gave a gloomy prediction of prospects for 2008 in a comment on this blog:
“There has been a seemingly inexorable rise in the number and severity [...]
Posted in IMB, International Maritime Bureau, piracy on Nov 28th, 2007
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Suspicious crafts
Recently reported incidents
24.11.2007: 0345 LT: 06:17.8S – 003:21.2E, Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
Four armed robbers in a small wooden [...]
Posted in Bourbon Dolphin, Fire, allision, ferry, grounding, oil, oil spill, oil tanker on Nov 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! FATHER OF DEAD FEMALE SEA-FARER DOESN’T BELIEVE IT’S SUICIDE
Niu FM - Auckland,New Zealand
Auckland 6am: The family of the Kiribati woman seafarer said to have hanged herself say they saw no sign that was the case on her body.
Four people and [...]
Posted in maritime accident casebook on Nov 27th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Calls for tourism safeguards after cruise ship sinks
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Sanson said New Zealand had recently completed a ship-grounding rescue exercise with the rescue co-ordination centre, the Defence Force and the US Antarctic …
Environmental advocates see weakness in [...]
Posted in New Zealand, pollution on Nov 26th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Oil Rig Fire in Shetlands Extinguished, Rescuers Say (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
The UK Coastguard was called at 8:10 am local time “to report that assistance was needed,” the Southampton-based Maritime and Coastguard Agency said in an
10 killed in shandong ship accident
China [...]
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