Empowering seafarers to keep themselves alive and their ships safe
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Gangplanks are required to be safe ways of getting on and off a vessel. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? A photograph from Gard’s Spanish correspondent, Bull Marine Surveyors, suggests that the message still hasn’t sunk in, with water cascading onto the gangplank.
What worries [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Generally speaking inerting the accommodation by way of the air conditioning is not to be recommended, but thoughtless engineering could make that happen, as the latest issue of Feedback from the Confidential Hazard Incident Reporting Programme (www.chirp.co.uk), shows.
In the report a ship [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Tackling Piracy at Sea Conference, 18th and 19th March 2009, London, UK
Tackling Piracy is an international conference that will bring together all those concerned with or affected by piracy at sea to discuss what solutions can be found. As insurance companies [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! The Australian Transport Council of Ministers has approved a new set of national safety guidelines on marine pilotage.
The revised guidelines were developed by the National Marine Safety Committee (NMSC) in conjunction with Ports Australia, the Australian Marine Pilots Association and [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
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Good situational awareness is vital to safety navigation and how we process information about the world around us has much to do with whether we’ve ‘got it’ or not. MAC’s favourite science magazine, New Scientist, reports on some intriguing cultural differences between [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! A one-day programme of SASMEX seminars will coincide with the Nor-Shipping Exhibition on 10th June, 2009, says Safety At Sea International. Seminar content is currently under review. The third annual Safety At Sea International Awards dinner will be held the same evening [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Seafarer and booze go together like, well, seafarers and booze.Sadly, in the case of Geosounder, seafarer plus booze equalled a man over board who has not been recovered.
Norwegian registered, Geosounder finished a contract in New Zeraland and headed for Singapore for a [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Suez Canal traffic halted briefly after ships collide
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ISMAILIA: Traffic through the Suez Canal was halted briefly on Sunday after a collision between a Panamanian cargo ship and an Egyptian passenger ferry, a canal official told AFP.There [...]
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 [...]
Posted in maritime accidents on Nov 20th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Denis Bryant who produces the informative Holland and Knight newsletter remind us that 18th November is the anniversary of the premier of Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willy, which introduced Mickey Mouse to the world and muses on Mickey’s rank or rating and whether [...]
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