Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 23rd, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Counterfeiters are putting seafarers lives at risk with fake Emergency Escape Breathing Devices which won’t go over a user’s head and with ‘automatic’ air release valves that don’t work, warns a US coast guard safety alert. Check the EEBDs on your vessel.
Models [...]
Posted in piracy on Sep 22nd, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! It’s Maritime Week, so Fox News will be grilling McCain and Obama about how they propose to deal with the threat to American economy presented by piracy off the Somali coast. CNN will be featuring items on the importance of seafarers to [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 21st, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Fire breaks out on Vinashin Rubi ship
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
Nhan Dan Online – A fire broke out on 10.000 tonne Vinashin Rubi ship anchoring at the Hai Phong Port at 8.45 am on September 18.
Hy-Line ferry catches fire
Cape Cod Times - [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 20th, 2008
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Her name was quite appropriate. The grounding of the North Korean-registered general cargo ship Saga off the Swedish coast on June 20 this year seems to [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Your starter for 10: A) What’s 24 carat goldplated, four feet across, with a giant hungry grasshopper and cost nearly two million dollars and B) what does it have in common with Kung Fu, Longitude and a kettle thermostat? And C) What [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –>Powered water-tight door hazards are highlighted in the MAIB preliminary report of a fatality aboard the ro-ro cargo vessel Ark Forwarder.
MAIB recommendations to the vessel manager, Northern Maritime [...]
Posted in accident reporting, allision, bridge, containership on Sep 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Our good feiwend John Konrad of the great gCaptain site sent us the following email. It’s certainly worth clicking the clicks:
It’s been a few months since I sent those interested in the Cosco Busan an email. My apologies, the incident in New Orleans has been [...]
Posted in China, Fatigue, accident reporting, bulk carrier, casualties, collision on Sep 20th, 2008
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Pit a fatigued, overworked officer keeping a watch alone at night aboard a 68,000 DWT containership weaving his way through fishing boats off the coast of China against a 35,343 dwt bulker which has forgotten to switch on its navigation lightsd, with [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 19th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! If your vessel has recently been re-powered with a turbocharged engine then keep an eye out for fire hazards, warns a US Coast Guard safety alert following two recent marine casualties that resulted in personnel injury, fire damage to machinery and ship [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Sep 19th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! As battered offshore oil and gas platforms come back to life in the gulf of Mexico and merchant shipping gets back to normal in the wake of Hurricane Ike MAC mused upon a few questions and put them to our ‘Man in [...]
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