Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Maritime Accident Casebook is now officially a year old and as we light
the candles, wearing appropriate PPE and extinguisher at the ready, we’d
like to thank all of you who have supported us, directly or simply by
taking notice of what we do and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
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News24 - South Africa
The ship’s hull was breached below the waterline in an apparent collision with a reef near Oinousses, the spokesperson said, adding that the ferry was
One in hospital following ship fire on waterfront
North Shore News [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Fuel fire and toxic tabs
Two fire incident reports have been issued by Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau, both are cautionary
Fuel
In 2000 DNV issued a study which revealed that two thirds of shipboard fires started in the engine room and 56 per cent were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008
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Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, Uncategorized, accident reporting on Jun 27th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Take nothing for granted when seawater is involved might be one of the messages of the preliminary report on the failure of two Marin-Ark evacuation systems aboard the P&O ro-ro ferry Pride of Canterbury issued by Britain’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2008
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Visayan Daily Star - Dumaguete City,Philippines
Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas Raul Banias said the site of the sinking is around 4 km from the coast of Carles. The remains of the fatalities,
Worker injured in ship [...]
Posted in piracy on Jun 26th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Weekly Piracy Report
17-23 June 2008
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting [...]
Posted in explosion on Jun 25th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Sharp eyes picked up on a headline in Maritime Safety News for 16th June: “The LNG Threat:Liquefied Natural Gas Tankers Remain Giant Terror Targets on the extremist American website The Cutting Edge,. We would have ignored it except [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Gruesome Accident at Ports in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times - Freetown,Sierra Leone
He disclosed that while operating the crane with the aid of the Gang Headman, one Mr. Jalloh to discharge containers on deck Marine Ricker Vessel that .
Somalia Pirates Seize Four [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! One issue that is unlikely to come under scrutiny in the Princess of the Seas disaster, 57 survivors so far out of more than 800 on board, is the adequacy of training of seafarers for the domestic maritime industry.
It will doubtless [...]
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