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Posted in IMO, lifeboat, lifeboat accidents, lifeboat safety, on-load on Feb 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in lifeboat, lifeboat accidents, lifeboat safety, on-load on Jan 24th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in LSA Code, Safelaunch, Survival Craft Inspectorate, hook, lifeboat safety, on-load on Sep 20th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Paul Watkins of the Survival Craft Inspectorate, a company producing LSA equipment Have asked us to note the Safelaunch hook which, he says: “has been designed to address the issues of accidental release and to entirely negate the possibility of it. It [...]
Posted in Valparaiso Star, fatality, lifeboat, lifeboat accidents, on-load on Sep 17th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! It can save your life, but there’s a catch.
And that catch can kill
The Deadly Saviour returns in
The Case of the Killer Catch
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Posted in ATSB, Australia, Bob Couttie, Cape Kestrel, accident reporting, bulk carrier, casualties, falls, lifeboat, maritime accidents, on-load, podcast, seafarer fatalities on Jul 13th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Where is the most dangerous place on your ship? The cargo holds? The chain locker? The galley? The rolling deck in a storm? No. The most dangerous place on your ship is the one place you really, really want to be when [...]
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