Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Like us? Bookmark this article! Five ships, two under gunfire, deterred attacks by Puntland pirates in the Gulf Of Aden in one day alone. Lessons, it seems, are being learned.
Evasive manoeuvering and fire hoses were used to defend the vessels, which have not been named, on [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! From Bimco:
BIMCO representatives attended the 94th session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee held in London from 20 - 24 October 2008. Among the items on the agenda was the development of a draft protocol to the 1996 International Convention [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Having your eyes open isn’t much good unless they’re pointing in the right direction. That’s a lesson learned the hard way by an OS aboard the Danish registered general cargo ship Ann Rousing in August at El Ferrol, Spain.
The ship is equipped [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Your starter for 10: Where is the best place for a designated lookout at night on route between Dagenham,Essex and Belfast? A) The bridge (B) the messroom?
The answer, aboard the Antigua and Barbuda registered Jerome H in the early hours of the [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! English isn’t the first language for many of our readers, and not for the majority of seafarers, so MAC has implemented a translation capability to make life easier. At the bootm of each post and page you’ll see some small national flags. [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Ships collide in English Channel
BBC News - UK
… and the British-registered cargo vessel, Scot Isles, was injured in the incident. A Dover Coastguard spokesman said the collision caused minor damage
Cargoship runs aground above Tay gas pipeline
Lloyd’s List - London,UK
Dover coastguard [...]

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Falmouth Penryn Packet - Falmouth,UK
Falmouth coastguards helped co-ordinate a rescue west of the Cape Verde Islands which involved a vessel sinking. Den Helder received an Inmarsat distress
Somali govt allows Russian warships fight pirates off [...]

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MAC’s eye for mystery was caught by a recent report in the Observer retailing claims that the CIA was responsible for a collision of two vessels on the Thames in 1964. Real sea mysteries are fascinating, one of these days we’ll nose [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Long before he became president of the US and while practicing as a lawyer Abraham Lincoln was late for an appointment because the paddle steamer he was travelling on ran aground. So miffed was he that he invented inflatable bags that could [...]

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