Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, accident reporting, grounding, maritime safety, pilotage on Sep 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! MAIB’s report on the grounding of the 78-metre general cargo vessel Sea Mithril on the River Trent in fog three times in 30 minutes while under pilotage is certainly worth the read. It deserves to be mandatory reading for officers, those who [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Six sailors remain missing after ship capsizal in E China
Xinhua - China
The vessel named “Helios 3″ reported its distress, saying they were “sinking“, and called for help to the Municipal Maritime Rescue Center of Wenzhou City,
3 bodies from capsized [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! An electronic chart display and better training for manual steering in restricted waters may have prevented the grounding of the general cargo ship Rosethorn in the Drogden Rende in May, says the Danish Maritime Authority, DMA. It is the second report in [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Nine killed in Indonesia ferry fire: reports
AFP
The fire appeared to have started in the ship’s engine room, Siregar said. “(However) We don’t know for sure how it happened because the whole ship was .
Somali pirates demand 35 million dollars for ‘tank’ [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! MAC believes that anyone deliberately sludging-up the environment, or encouraging it to be done, should be keel-hauled and fed to the sharks in small chunks. We have no sympathy for those who get caught by the US Coast Guard and get subjected [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Jobs for maritime accident investigators don’t come up very often and the current search by the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch for someone to join its 39-strong team gives a bit of a glimpse into what’s needed to get onboard.
For starters, you’ll [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 27th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Pirates seize Ukrainian ship off Somalia coast: official
AFP
NAIROBI (AFP) — Pirates on Thursday seized a Ukrainian cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan maritime official said, amid reports that it was
Gabon: Cargo ship sinks in Gabon
Afrique en ligne [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 27th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! 7 killed in Indonesia ferry fire
Straits Times - Singapore
‘The likelihood is that the ship was transporting more people than its capacity could allow,’ Ambon search and rescue head Eddy Paays was quoted as saying.
Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard working to [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 27th, 2008
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For reasons not under our control Maritime Accident Casebook was offline for several hours yesterday. It was a server problem that took some time to track down and correct.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
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Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 26th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! MAC makes no apology for bringing such frequent attention to enclosed/confined space incidents. The release of the joint investigation into two fatalities in the forward store of the general cargo ship Sava Lake by Britain’s Marine Investigation Branch and the Division for [...]
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