Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in capsize, collision, collision regulations, maritime accidents, pilotage, sinking on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Following MAC’s forceful comments on claims regarding the capsize and sinking of the east German cargo ship Magdeburg after a collision with a Japanese ship, Yamashiro Maru, made by journalist Andrew Rosthorn and ‘naval historian’ E. John McGarry that the Central Intelligence [...]
Like us? Bookmark this article! As lawyers fiddle in their briefs in preparation for the trial of San Francisco pilot John Cota, another bridge contact incident has come under the spotlight with the release of the US National Transportation Safety Board’s report on the Panama-registered 243 metre [...]
Posted in capsize, collision, collision regulations, colregs on Oct 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! 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 [...]
Posted in Fire, collision, collision regulations, maritime accidents on Oct 27th, 2008
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Mariner’s Chapel in London’s oldest church displays the bell of the BP tanker British Trent, a memorial to the nine seafarers who died in a collision and fire off Belgium in 1993. Maritime Accident Casebook’’s latest podcast explores why the lessons of [...]
Like us? Bookmark this article! Two injured in boiler explosion off Port Stephens
Newcastle Herald - Newcastle,Australia
The two Filipino men, aged 51 and 31, were stabilised on board the ship while the Hunter Westpac rescue helicopter raced to the scene, some 41 nautical
MV Ocean Papa [...]
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 Uncategorized, collision on Sep 16th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Online membership applications for the Maritime Casualty Investigation Association are now online here.
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Posted in accident reporting, collision on Sep 12th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Make sure people know what you’re up to, especially when the master’s had a few too many, is one of the lessons from the Danish Maritime Authority’s report on the collision between the Rudokop, a converted tug, and a single-crewed fishing [...]
Posted in collision, maritime accidents, ship accident, sinking on Aug 6th, 2008
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Filling big, expensive ships with ill-trained mariners from the third world with but a smattering of English is nothing new, if recent research into the sinking of the, brief, pride of Henry VIII’s fleet in 1545 if Professor Hugh Montgomery, a medical [...]
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, accident reporting, collision, maritime accidents on Jul 24th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! A Bruised Queen Leads to Revolutionary Thinking
What strange and dangerous thoughts roam the minds of the investigators of the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch might be glimpsed in its preliminary report on the contact between the 90,000 gross tonnes Queen Victoria and [...]
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