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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 [...]
Posted in Fire, fire safety on Oct 26th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! When the USNS Shuggart caught fire on 5 March, 2004, more than half of its fuel oil quick-closing valves, FOQCVs, failed to operate because they were poorly maintained and were not tested properly on board. An alert has been issued on FOQCVs [...]
Posted in Fire on Oct 19th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Inquiries into last year’s fire aboard the historic Cutty Sark on the Thames “had to be made to the standard of a murder investigation” says police inspector Dave Garwood, who announced ther findings to journalists. According to the police report the fire [...]
Posted in Fire, MAIB, Maritime & Coastguard Agency, accident reporting, enclosed space, fatality, fire safety, maritime accidents on Aug 19th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! MAIB’s report on the Figaro incident in December 2007 in which an accidental activation of the ship’s CO2 smothering system led to the vessel losing propulsion and electrical power in rough weather, sending it drifting toward Wolf Rock off the southern English [...]
Posted in Fire, accident reporting, fire safety, funny on Aug 4th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! We don’t normally cover incidents on military vessels but a fire aboard a Finnish minelayer, Pohjanmaa may yet have lessons for civilian merchant vessels, mainly, watch where you dry your socks.
Pohjanmaa, the biggest ship in the Finnish navy, caught fire on [...]
Posted in Fire on Jul 9th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Doing the right thing isn’t enough unless you’re doing it with the right stuff is one of the lessons from the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch preliminary report on a fire aboard the UK-registered containership Maike D in Hamburg in June this [...]
Posted in Fire, Uncategorized, capsize, containership, ferry, fire safety, sinking on Jul 7th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! 100 firefighters extinguish massive fire on cargo ship
Associated Press - July 6, 2008 11:44 AM ET MIAMI (AP) - More than 100 firefighters have extinguished a massive fire on a cargo ship on the Miami River.
Agency finds safety problems in [...]
Posted in Canada, Fire, accident reporting, enclosed space, oil tanker on Jul 7th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Captain Gough Everett Wellon, master of a 76,000 tonnes Newfoundland shuttle oil tanker, Kometik, has been found guilty of violating Canadian labour laws in an incident that led to the death of a deckhand and serious injury of a welder in a [...]
Posted in Fire, fire safety, maritime accidents on Jun 5th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Denmark’s Maritime Authority has released its report on a fire aboard the AHTS Maersk Master.
During a tanker lifting operation on 4th February 2008 a fire broke out in the engine roomof the AHTS Maersk Master. The fire could not be extinguished by [...]
Posted in ATSB, Australia, Fire, fire safety on May 28th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Australia’s Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the fire aboard the BBC Islander last August. It isn’t a pretty sight. A fitter who couldn’t understand the ship’s SMS hot work requirements because it was in English, inadequate SMS procedures for [...]
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