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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 pilotage on Oct 26th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Captain John Cota, the pilot aboard the Cosco Busan when it made contact with the Delta tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge on 7 November 2007, has been found responsible for the accident through misconduct. Some 120,000 litres of bunker were spilled, [...]
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 [...]
Like us? Bookmark this article! …Oops, that should have been Stranger On The Bridge, “Strangler In The Fridge” was a sort of code during production. If you want to know what we get up to when not working on Maritime Accident Casebook check out the trailer etc. [...]
Posted in pilotage on Mar 29th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Joe O’Keefe of Maritime Executive magazine reviews the impact of criminal charges recently laid against the pilot of the Cosco Busan. It could be the end of an era that has long passed it’s use by date.
Says Joe:
“I don’t know who made [...]
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 pilotage on Jan 9th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! I mentioned Libby Purves’s Radio 4 programme on pilots previously. It’s now online and John Candillon-Baker of Pilot Mag emailed the link here. Check it out.
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Posted in pilotage on Jan 5th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! John Candillon-Baker of Pilot Mag tells us: ”
I thought that your readers may be interested in an article in the UK Times newspaper very well written by British journalist Libby Purves. The article can be viewed at the following link
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3122236.ece
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Posted in allision, oil spill, pilotage, pollution on Dec 21st, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! After US Senator Barbara Boxer introduced legislation that would pass authority from the ship’s master to VTS operators in US waters, MAC left a message at her website asking whether the legislation provided a waiver against responsibility for any damages that [...]
Posted in pilotage on Dec 14th, 2007
Like us? Bookmark this article! Joe Keefe of the Maritime Executive Newsletter make a number of cogent points about marine pilots in the post-Cosco Busan world:
“At this early stage, just one thing is perfectly clear: the Cosco Busan allision will ultimately help to redefine the role [...]
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