Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Like us? Bookmark this article! …Oops, that should have been Stranger On The Bridge, “Strangler In The Fridge” was a sort of code during production. If you want to know what we get up to when not working on Maritime Accident Casebook check out the trailer etc. [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Broken boat capsizes during Coast Guard tow, three dead, one man …
The Canadian Press - ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, Que.
A fisherman aboard a sealing vessel trailing the disabled boat said the light icebreaker Sir William Alexander pulled L’Acadien II over a large chunk of [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Regarding your recent LRAD® article posted at this link:
http://maritimeaccident.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/does-lrad-work/
“After the USS Cole was attacked in October 2000, the U.S. Navy asked American Technology Corporation (ATC) to use our expertise in shaping sound to create a directed acoustic hailing and warning device (AHD) [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Joe O’Keefe of Maritime Executive magazine reviews the impact of criminal charges recently laid against the pilot of the Cosco Busan.  It could be the end of an era that has long passed it’s use by date.
Says Joe:
“I don’t know who made [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! No single cause led to the capsize of the AHTS Bourbon Dolphin with the loss of eight lives, with seven survivors, on April 12, 2007 says a report into the sinking released by Norway’s Justice Ministry, but Bourbon Offshore, which owned the [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Four missing after cargo vessel hits bridge in E China
China Daily - China
BEIJING - China’s maritime search and rescue center said on Thursday morning that an empty cargo vessel hit a bridge under construction near the eastern
Ferries ‘often cut channel’
Manly Daily [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Help! If anyone out there has, or is willing to donate a 220v power adaptor for a Behringer Xenyx 802, to MAC we’d very much like to hear from you at mac@maritimeaccident.com. They’re rather thin on the ground in this neck of [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Two bodies pulled from sunken Ukrainian tugboat
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
Earlier this week, Anatoliy Prisyazhnyuk, the owner of the Ukrainian vessel, blamed the Chinese dry cargo ship for the fatal collision.
2 crewmen on Thai ship seriously injured; airlifted to Staten …
Staten [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! A ferry with a faulty radar, a containership closing a half a mile a minute, and an oil tanker, all trying to occupy the same space at the same time - can a mad German dentist avoid disaster?
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Weekly Piracy Report from the International Maritime Bureau
18-24 March 2008

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

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