Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in IMO, accident reporting, capsize, maritime accident casebook, maritime accidents on Aug 30th, 2008
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While the report of Board Of Marine Inquiry, BMI, in the Philippines on the capsize of the Princess Of The Seas in a typhoon with the loss of more than 700 lives, has met its primary objective, establishing liability for the incident [...]
Posted in maritime accident casebook on Aug 9th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! The illustrated transcript for The Case Of The Own-Way Assassin is now finished and released. Read it here.
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Posted in maritime accident casebook, maritime accidents, maritime safety news on May 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Eight missing in E China ship collision
Xinhua - China
NANJING, May 27 (Xinhua) — Eight passengers were missing after a yacht collided with a cargo ship in a section of the Yangtse River in the eastern Jiangsu .
Somalia sends troops to [...]
Posted in Humber, MAIB, collision, maritime accident casebook, pilotage on Jan 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! The UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch has released its full report on the collision between the Audacity and the Leonis in the approaches to the River Humber in April 2007. There was a pilot aboard the Audacity and there was a VTS [...]
Posted in maritime accident casebook, maritime accidents, maritime crime on Dec 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Suspected Sunken Shipwreck Found
Korea Times - South Korea
By Kim Rahn The Navy has found an object on the sea floor which is suspected of being the hull of the cargo vessel Eastern Bright, which sank Tuesday in
Heavy storms to keep [...]
Posted in Filipino, maritime accident casebook, maritime accidents on Dec 17th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Ok, most people reading this will know that Filipinos represent the largest single nationality in the global maritime workforce, around 25 per cent, and that will probably increase over the coming years. Most Filipinos speak English, the Philippines is the world’s third [...]
Posted in grounding, maritime accident casebook, pilotage, podcast on Nov 28th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Pilotage and bridge team management have come to the fore this month with the allison between the Cosco Busan and the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge so the latest MAC episode, The Case Of The Confused Pilot is a timely reminder of the issues [...]
Posted in maritime accident casebook on Nov 27th, 2007
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Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Sanson said New Zealand had recently completed a ship-grounding rescue exercise with the rescue co-ordination centre, the Defence Force and the US Antarctic …
Environmental advocates see weakness in [...]
Posted in allision, collision, maritime accident casebook, maritime accidents, sinking on Nov 25th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Safety fears after 154 tourists rescued on Antarctic cruise
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The rescued passengers, who include 24 Britons, were last night taken to a Chilean base in Antarctica after being picked up following their lifeboat ordeal.
Crew rescued after trawler sinks
The [...]
Posted in Maritime Accident Casebook Toolbar, maritime accident casebook on Nov 22nd, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! If our post on rogue waves has given you sleepless nights, don’t worry, help is on the way suggests a report in my favourite science magazine, New Scientist.
Says NS, at a confere3cne in Oahu, Hawaii, a German radar company and a scientist [...]
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