Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Maritime-related Podcasts

Maritime Accident Casebook - Of course

Messing About In Boats - John Konrad and Peter Mello’s chatty podcast for seafarers

Boater’s TV - Mainly for yachties and others who get in the way of big ships but occasionally touches on the merchant world.

Maritime Blogs

gCaptain: John Konrad’s great blog for mariners.
Fred Fry International: Maritime Monday, good round-up and commentary

Maritime-related Websites

http://www.maritime-vts.co.uk Nice site about VTS by Terry Hughes.

The Art Of Dredging: Marc Van de Velde’s rather nice site about and for dredging. Fascinating.

Disaster At Sea - Photos of Maritime Destruction

Container Shipping

Most Outrageous Ship Photos

DanshipWeb: Activist safety site

Tetley’s Maritime and Admiralty Law: “My website www.mcgill.ca/maritimelaw strives to be a useful source of information on maritime and admiralty law matters”, indeed, it is.

The Pilot Boat

Seadolby
Maritime Mate

MaritimeLinks Self explanatory, site for mariners, strong US bias flavour.

Mariners Homeport Networking site for seafarers. Worth a look.

Saltysez

Don Pedro’s Mariners job links, worth a browse, also has a maritime webring associated with it.

Ship Days Site for Merchant marine studies and exams. Well recommended.

Seafarer Organisations

The Nautical Institute: “The international professional body for qualified seafarers and others with an interest in nautical matters. We provide a wide range of services to enhance the professional standing and knowledge of members who are drawn from all sectors of the maritime world. Check out the MARS section.”

Trade Organisations

International Association for Safety and Survival Training: Founded by a group of major safety training providers to enhance the quality of emergency response training by encouraging an interchange of knowledge and experience between training providers on a global basis.

GlobeMET - Global Maritime Education and Training Association: The initiative to form an Asia Pacific regional association grew out of a series of informal gatherings, initiated by the meeting of Heads of Maritime Education and Training Institutions in Asia Pacific, convened and hosted by the Australian Maritime College in 1989.

United States Marine Safety Association. Promote the development and implementation of the highest possible performance, manufacturing, maintenance, service and training standards, for all lifesaving, survival and emergency rescue equipment. To be a centralized network for the collection and dissemination of useful information. To serve and educate the membership, the general public, and governing agencies in a manner which exhibits a commitment to the highest degree of quality and integrity.

Charities

Seafarers Assistance Program: Seafarers Assistance Program is a voluntary charity of merchant mariners founded in 1996 to offer humantarian assistance to all seafarers; Monitor, document and investigate seafarers’ rights abuses in Africa; Design, co-ordinate and carry out training, cultural and leisure activites for seafarers; Collect and dessiminate information on maritime activities in Africa; Collect and dessiminate educational materials as well as studies.

Education and Training Centres

IDESS Maritime Training Centre:

IDESS IT: Maritime Safety Training software covering fire safety, sea survival, first aid and ship security. Demos, registration required.

Centre d’Etude et de Pratique de la Survie (CEPS) French safety and survival training centre in Brittany.

Trygdarmiðstøðin – (The Safety Centre) – Faroe Islands: An institution under the Faroese Fishery Administration, which has sea safety as one of its fields of responsibility. Safety and Survival training.

Publications

International Maritime Human Element Bulletin

Confidential Reporting

Publications (Free or free subscription online)

Maritime Executive (Has a great free weekly newsletter, very insightful)

ECDIS Today

Maritime Today

Marine Reporter

Online, free, subscribable, American with a bias towards US navy stories

Digital Ship

CHIRPS The Confidential Hazardous Incident Reporting Programme.

Maritime Health

Medecine Maritime (French, some English)

Seacare Australia

National Maritime Investigation Agencies

Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
Bureau d’enquêtes sur les événements de mer (BEAmer)
Dutch Transport Safety Board (DTSB)
International Transportation Safety Association (ITSA)
Marine Accident Investigation Branch, UK
Transportation Safety Board of Canada
US Coastguard Office of Investigation and Analysis
Hong Kong Marine Department
International Maritime Organization
Transport Accident Investigation Commission, New Zealand
The National Transportation Safety Board, USA (NTSB)
Board of Accident Investigation, Sweden
Swedish Maritime Administration
Accident Investigation Board of Finland
Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency, Japan

Piracy

International Maritime Bureau

P&I Clubs

American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc
Assuranceforeningen Gard
Assuranceforeningen Skuld
The Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association Limited
The Japan Ship Owners’ Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association
The London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Limited
The North of England Protection & Indemnity Association
The Shipowners’ Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association (Luxembourg)
The Standard Steamship Owners’ Protection & Indemnity Association (Bermuda) Limited
The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda) Limited
The Swedish Club
United Kingdom Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Association (Bermuda) Limited
The West of England Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association (Luxembourg)