Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Minerva is the Goddess of wisdom and music, so Minerva Concert might seem quite a good name for a ship, but the bridge team of the four-year old Greek-registered 105,817 DWT crude oil tanker Minerva Concert certainly weren’t playing in tune when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2008
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Somali pirates seize Spanish boat
A Spanish fishing boat with 26 crew on boar has been seized by pirates off Somalia, officials in Spain say.
They say the Playa de Bakio - a Basque tuna boat - was attacked about 250 miles (400km) off [...]
Posted in piracy on Apr 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 8 to 14 April 2008.
ALERT
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
The number of attacks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! For those with a historical bent, the BBC’s Titanic archive of interviews with survivors, including Commander Lightoller and crew members, the forceful attempts by government and ship interests to ban a play about the incident, takes us to another time and place.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! 11 Mariners Rescued 300 Miles South of Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Coast Guard watch standers and the crew of a Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon Jet coordinated with the motor tanker Aegean Angel the rescue of 11distressed mariners aboard [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Rescuers search for at least 13 missing crew members after ship …
International Herald Tribune - France
He said Japanese officials, who received the initial accident report from South Korean coast guard via maritime safety radio, did not know the cause of the … [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Dennis Bryant at Holland & Knight clearly shares our exasperation at bandwagonning politicians climbing aboard the Cosco Busan. Commenting on a bill introduced by that global maritime expert Senator Feinstein, he says ‘The bill provides, among other things, that during a condition [...]
Posted in grounding on Apr 16th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Whatever the details of the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch report on the 18th January 2007 structural failure and grounding of the MSC Napoli, scheduled for release on 22nd April, the container industry can expect to be walking around with painfully rapped [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! BBC Features Maritime Accident Casebook: BBC Radio 5’s Pod And Blogs features Maritime Accident Casebook. Hear what producer Chris Vallance has to say here
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! I’ve never known seafarers to adverse to beavers so the picture below may be helpful in making a point about experience versus safety.
Simply follow these steps:
1. Print out picture
2. Put picture in wallet.
3. Wait for someone to say “I’ve been doing this [...]
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