Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Like us? Bookmark this article! Two Chinese cargo ships collide, at least 15 dead
Reuters - USA
Rescue operations are continuing and an investigation into the cause of the accident has begun, said the news agency. (Reporting by Kirby Chien)
At least 100 feared dead in Congo boat [...]

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Weekly Piracy Report
22-28 January 2008

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! With this new series of MAC episodes I’d like to introduce a new voice, Ami Jacinto, a well experienced voice talent in the Philippines who’ll be helping develop the Tagalog version of the podcasts.

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Part 2 of The Case Of The Unfamiliar Mariner, the first episode in our second series of Maritime Accident Casebooks is now on line here.
We have also done a small re-edit of Part 1.

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Language Barrier Caused Coast Guard To Underestimate SF Bay Oil Spill
AHN - USA
… crew and inexperience in assessing the accident prompted them to initially estimate the oil spill from the m/v Cosco Busan at 140 gallons. 

Royal Navy finds sunken wreck [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! The UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch has released its full report on the collision between the Audacity and the Leonis in the approaches to the River Humber in April 2007. There was a pilot aboard the Audacity and there was a VTS [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Fatal ferry organizer on the run
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
By Dong Zhen 2008-1-25 A MAN who arranged an illegal ferry ride on January 11 that left 10 dead and one still missing after a collision at sea, 

Report on ‘07 sinking [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Denis Bryant of Holland + Knight sent us a link to a US Coast Guard video of the Orange Sun clobbering the dredge New York in Newark Bay:
Collision Video 
There’s a release on subsequent operations here.
All we need now is a tanker full [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Titas pipeline on blaze after hit by trawler
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
“Soon after the propeller of the vessel hit the pipeline with a bang, a huge swirl was created in the river and we thought our boat was sinking,” said 
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Water is best kept under the hull in most situation but when fire strikes it becomes the best way to douse the flames even if it can burn (Check out The Case Of The Tongues Of Fire), but it leaves an aweful [...]

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