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NTSB determines cause of Bonnie G grounding

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report into the October 4, 2023, grounding of the former OSV Bonnie G, half a mile south of the Cyril E. King airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The agency finds that an anchor chain failure was the cause of the Bonnie G grounding, which occurred during Tropical Storm Phillippe and started a 26-day salvage saga in the height of the hurricane season.

The 172-foot-long, Vanuatu-flagged vessel was originally delivered as an offshore...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/ntsb-determines-cause-of-bonnie-g-grounding/

Grounded bulker Algoma Verity successfully refloated

U.S. Coast Guard Fifth District reported Saturday that the M/V Algoma Verity had been refloated and was moored at Tioga Marine Terminal, approximately two miles north of Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River.

As we reported previously, at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 9, Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay watchstanders received a report from the pilot aboard the 623-foot, Bahamas-flagged self-unloading bulk carrier stating that the vessel had run aground with no injuries in the...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/grounded-bulker-algoma-verity-successfully-refloated/

Response to grounded cargo vessel Bonnie G continues

The Coast Guard today established a safety zone around the Bonnie G, the cargo vessel that grounded Wednesday just south of the airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. All 12 persons aboard the vessel were rescued, and no injuries were reported to the Coast Guard.

The safety zone will extend one quarter mile around the Bonnie G for the duration of the response. Commercial and recreational vessels are advised to remain clear of this area for their safety and the safety of response crews...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/response-to-grounded-cargo-vessel-bonnie-g-continues/

USCG rescues 12 from grounded cargo vessel

grounded cargo vessel

A Coast Guard boat crew rescued 12 people, Wednesday morning, after they were forced to abandon the grounded cargo vessel M/V Bonnie G which was taking on water and had run aground just south of the airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

All 12 persons aboard the Bonnie G, a 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel, are safe and no injuries have been reported to the Coast Guard.

According to the Equasis data base, the Bonnie G was originally built in 1981 as an offshore service vessel and...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/uscg-rescues-12-from-grounded-cargo-vessel/

Attempts to free grounded Ocean Explorer remain unsuccessful

In a reminder that those who sign up for “adventure cruises” don’t always get the sort of adventures they expect, the 104-meter long, ice class PC6, expedition cruise ship Ocean Explorer today remained grounded in a Greenland fjord 660 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. There are 206 people on board. All are reported safe.

The vessel grounded Monday afternoon on what Danish Defense describes as sand and mud. Since then the vessel has made several unsuccessful attempts to free itself. The...

https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/cruiseships/attempts-to-free-grounded-ocean-explorer-remain-unsuccessful/

Cargo Ship Loaded With Steel Coil Runs Aground; 15 Syrian Mariners Successfully Rescued

Ship Loaded With Steel Coil Runs Aground

In a swift SAR mission, the Indian Coast Guard was able to save the lives of 15 mariners from Syria. These mariners were on a foreign-flagged ship named MV Princess Miral that had run aground on Tuesday, off New Mangalore. The ship was loaded with about 8000 tons of steel coil.

The SAR mission had been coordinated by ICG ships Amartya and Vikram. These braved poor weather conditions during the rescue mission. The crew members of the grounded ship had abandoned the vessel owing to a breach in the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/cargo-ship-loaded-with-steel-coil-runs-aground-15-syrian-mariners-successfully-rescued/

1000 Foot Vessel Freed After Running Aground in Savannah River

Grounded Sip in Savannah

The US Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Savannah is examining how a motor vessel had run aground near Fort Jackson in the Savannah River on Tuesday night.

At around 6:09 p.m., the Coast Guard staff was informed that the 1,091-foot Maersk Surabaya vessel loaded with cargo and passing via the shipping channel, had moored itself to the river’s bottom.

The Sector Charleston watchstanders dispatched a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium (RBM) crew from Station Tybee to create a 509-foot safety zone around the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/running-aground-in-savannah-river/

Containers To Be Unloaded From ‘Ever Forward’ After 3 Weeks Of Being Aground

Ever Forward

It has been a little more than three weeks since a massive cargo vessel had run aground in the Chesapeake Bay and it will have to be unloaded, the US Coast Guard reported. The revised trick to refloat the Ever Forward came after several failed attempts made for dredging it around the vessel and dislodging it with the tugboats.

The vessel, operated by Evergreen Marine Corp based in Taiwan, was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk in Virginia when it had run aground on 13 March.

Now,...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/containers-to-be-unloaded-from-ever-forward-after-3-weeks-of-being-aground/

Refloat rethink will see boxes lifted off grounded Ever Forward

Following the failure of three attempts to move the grounded containership Ever Forward using tugs and barges, the unified command in charge of the refloat operation has developed a new strategy.

This comes after salvage experts determined they would not be able to overcome the ground force of the Ever Forward in its current loaded condition. They say the new strategy offers the best chance of successfully refloating the Ever Forward from its current position in Chesapeake Bay.

CRANE BARGES

The...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/environment/salvage/refloat-rethink-will-see-boxes-lifted-off-grounded-ever-forward/

Container Vessel ‘Thorswind’ Runs Aground In Dubai; Successfully Refloated

Container Vessel 'Thorswind' Runs Aground

The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC) has been successful in floating a container vessel that was grounded on Thursday near Dubai’s Palm Deira when it was sailing from Port Khalid to Khalifa Port.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirati politician and the ED of the DMCA of the PCFC, said that the Authority received news of the grounding of the container vessel “THORSWIND” on Thursday morning. He further added that important meetings were...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/container-vessel-thorswind-runs-aground-in-dubai-successfully-refloated/

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