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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 Barge, Bridge procedures, accident reporting, bridge, bulk carrier on Jul 17th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Bridge Alarms on the Button for Denmark
After the general cargo ship KAREN DANIELSEN collided with the Great Belt Bridge in 2005, Denmark and the Bahamas submitted a proposal to the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) on a carriage requirement for a bridge [...]
Posted in bulk carrier, collision, collision regulations, containership, grounding, pilotage, tanker on Nov 22nd, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! In one of those cosmic coincidences, at around the moment the Cosco Busan kissed the San Francisco-Oakland bridge while under pilotage the finishing touches were being put on a three-episode DVD for the American Club called, what else, Stranger On The Bridge.
AP&I [...]
Posted in bulk carrier, grounding, podcast on Aug 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Put together three bays as alike as walnuts in a shell game, a tired pilot, and an obedient second officer and the right turn could be the wrong turn.
The Case Of The Baffling Bays
Transcript now online here
Podcast on out podcasts page [...]
Posted in ATSB, Australia, Bob Couttie, Cape Kestrel, accident reporting, bulk carrier, casualties, falls, lifeboat, maritime accidents, on-load, podcast, seafarer fatalities on Jul 13th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Where is the most dangerous place on your ship? The cargo holds? The chain locker? The galley? The rolling deck in a storm? No. The most dangerous place on your ship is the one place you really, really want to be when [...]
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