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Posted in collision, maritime accidents, ship accident, sinking on Aug 6th, 2008
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Filling big, expensive ships with ill-trained mariners from the third world with but a smattering of English is nothing new, if recent research into the sinking of the, brief, pride of Henry VIII’s fleet in 1545 if Professor Hugh Montgomery, a medical [...]
Posted in ferry, maritime accidents, ship accident, ship accidents on Mar 13th, 2008
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board blames poor watchkeeping practices which lead to a course change not being made for the loss of the 8,889 gross tonnes ferry Queen Of The North on March 22, 2006 at Gil Island, Wright Sound, British Columbia, but has declined to [...]
Posted in grounding, maritime accidents, maritime crime, oil, oil spill, oil spill contingency plan, pollution, ship accident, ship accidents, sinking on Mar 12th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Three dead, one missing in SW China boat crash
Xinhua - China
The accident happened on the Wu River in Changshou District at 8 pm when a passenger ship from the suburban Fuling District crashed with the cargo shipÂ
Boat slams bridge
Sun.Star [...]
Posted in maritime accidents, maritime safety news, ship accident, ship accidents on Feb 23rd, 2008
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Singapore: Updated figures for 2007 show that the losses from navigational accident within the shipping industry are continuing to increase. This trend is also confirmed by the insurance industry. Premiums may increase by as much as 30 per cent [...]
Posted in maritime accidents, ship accident, ship accidents, sinking on Feb 4th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! 2 dead in tug boat sinking
Globe and Mail - Canada
The coast guard dispatched a Cormorant helicopter, a Hercules aircraft, and two vessels to the scene, but spokesman Christopher Fitzgerald says things  Dubai ship sinks off Manama
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Strong winds [...]
Posted in maritime safety news, ship accident on Feb 2nd, 2008
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Contractors Working on Board
A serious incident occurred while a maintenance contractor was using a gantry crane above a ship’s main engine.
The crane track was fitted with removable end stop pins which allowed the tracks to be arranged in different [...]
Posted in ship accident, ship accidents on Jan 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Part 2 of The Case Of The Unfamiliar Mariner, the first episode in our second series of Maritime Accident Casebooks is now on line here.
We have also done a small re-edit of Part 1.
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Posted in Somalia, ferry, ship accident, ship accidents on Jan 30th, 2008
Like us? Bookmark this article! Language Barrier Caused Coast Guard To Underestimate SF Bay Oil Spill
AHN - USA
… crew and inexperience in assessing the accident prompted them to initially estimate the oil spill from the m/v Cosco Busan at 140 gallons.Â
Royal Navy finds sunken wreck [...]
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