Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in accident reporting on Oct 26th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Judging by search statistics, one of MAC’s most popular posts is ‘Give Us A wave’, a look at rogue waves – mountains of water that can reach 20 metres or more and which were once thought to be exaggerations by credulous seafarers [...]
Posted in MAIB, accident reporting, maritime accidents on Oct 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! About one in five maritime accidents involve communications failures and so it was when the product carrier Sichem Melbourne suffered damage and nearly collided with an oil tanker after making heavy contact with mooring structures at Coryton Oil Refinery Terminal with a [...]
Posted in accident reporting on Oct 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! One lesson from a recent IMCA safety alert: RTFM - Read The Flipping Manual or you might end up taking it on the chin.
According to the safety alert, during a major refit of a vessel-based work-class remotely
operated vehicle ,ROV, spread an ROV [...]
Posted in Egypt, accident reporting, maritime accident, maritime podcasts, maritime safety on Oct 19th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Pirates are not the only ones to seize seafarers and hold them for ransom. Egypt is holding a ship’s master as a hostage, threatening up to three years imprisonment unless a rather imaginative assessment of damages caused when the his vessel struck [...]
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 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 MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, Maritime & Coastguard Agency, accident reporting on Sep 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! She’s bowed, she’s bent, she’s broken but MSC Napoli, subject of The Case Of The Bendy Boxer, seems unwilling to vanish off the face of the planet, or, at least, Branscombe Beach. Once again, weather is coming to the aid of her [...]
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, accident reporting on Sep 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Britain’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch has praised the skipper of the trawler New Dawn for his attempts to rescue a Filipino seafarer, Reynaldo Benitez, swept overboard by a towing chain but told the vessel ownewr, Fuimus LLP, to review onboard equipment and [...]
Posted in accident reporting on Sep 18th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Hurricane Ike has destroyed some some 28 oil and gas production platform in the Gulf Mexico and several others have been significantly damaged, reports the US Minerals Management Service, MMS. Casualties include three jack-up rigs destroyed, and one severely damaged while two [...]
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