Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
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 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 MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, accident reporting on Aug 3rd, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Stephen Meyer’s report in the Maritime Accident Investigation Board’s annual report covering 2007, now available, brings a disturbing viewpoint alongside a few sprinkles of good.
For the second year running the number of accidents involving merchant vessels has dropped for the second year. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, Uncategorized, accident reporting on Jun 27th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Take nothing for granted when seawater is involved might be one of the messages of the preliminary report on the failure of two Marin-Ark evacuation systems aboard the P&O ro-ro ferry Pride of Canterbury issued by Britain’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch.
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, accident reporting, enclosed space on Jun 13th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Five investigators from the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch spent the night of Wednesday June 11 aboard the cruise ship Saga Rose, docked at Southampton, inquiring into the death of a 43 year old second bosun, one of two Filipino crewmen trapped [...]
Posted in MAIB. Maritime accident, grounding, lifeboat, maritime accidents on Apr 22nd, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! We’ll be covering the MAIB’s 56 page and two annexe MSC Napoli report in more depth anon but a footnote got our immediate attention:
“It was evident during the investigation that the master had placed a great deal of emphasis on the importance [...]
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, collision on Dec 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! The UK’s MAIB has released the results of its investigation into the collision between the yacht Whispa and the LPG carrier Gas Monarch. The report comes in the wake of the clearing of manslaughter charges against a ship’s officer for the deaths [...]
Posted in MAIB, MAIB. Maritime accident, lifeboat, lifeboat accidents, lifeboat safety on Oct 30th, 2007
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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