Like us? Bookmark this article! Compared to other launch systems,
free-fall lifeboat accidents are relatively rare.
This one was just a drop in the ocean.
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Like us? Bookmark this article! As a backgrounder to the forthcoming The Case Of The Fallen Saviour podcast:
Freefall lifeboat concepts have been around for 110 years. The earliest known patent was issued to AE Falk of Stockholm, Sweden, on 30th March 1897. It was to be stern-launched [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! One of MAC’s friends in the lifeboat sector (Yes, we do have a few) gives a gloomy report on this week’s International Maritime Organisation DE51 meeting in Bonn at which various issues, including lifeboats and on-load release hooks were under discussion.
“I am [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Next week sees the 51st session of the IMO Sub-Committee meeting on ship design and equipment, DE51, at Bonn’s appropriately named Hotel Maritim. High on the agenda will be those Ford Pintos of the sea, lifeboats, and the appalling record, and growing, [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Lifeboat hooks not fit for purpose - Worldwide
The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), through a recently published Marine Information Notice (MIN), recommends that a system should be introduced whereby maintenance shackles are rigged to by-pass lifeboat on-load release hooks during the [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Two dead in Baltic Sea lifeboat accident
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Two people died and one was seriously injured in a lifeboat accident onboard a container freight ship in the Baltic Sea, officials said.
Another freighter hits bottom in Muskegon
Kalamazoo [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Peter Goldmann, the late Swedish film director who pretty much created the modern music video used to tell me ‘RTFM’ when I couldn’t work something out - “Read The f*&$king Manual”. Probably a good motto to judge by the UK’s MAIB [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! No, MAC isn’t embarking on advocacy by four-letter word, culturally appropriate though it might be in the environs of the salty seadog, but when asked their opinion on the brewing controversy, or possibly manufactured controversies, surrounding the implementation oif the IMOs MSC1206 [...]
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Like us? Bookmark this article! We emailed Pesbo on August 28, 2007 regarding issues raised in the Valparaiso Star incident:
“The Bahamas Maritime Administration report raises questions regarding the self-righting ability of the boat, the water-tightness of the side-hatches and the design [...]
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Posted in lifeboat, lifeboat accidents on Sep 19th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! My colleague in the blogosphere, Fred Fry has a pretty scary lifeboat pic which pretty much says what needs to be said about relegating current lifeboat designs to history. Lowering a lifeboat that far under real conditions of evacuation hardly bears thinking [...]
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