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Video: Viking Line’s Passenger Ferry Amorella Runs Aground

Viking Line Amorella Aground

On Sunday afternoon Amorella, a passenger ferry operated by Viking Line, carrying 208 passengers and 74 crew members and en route to Stockholm from Turku, ran aground in the Aland archipelago.

Coast Guards helped to evacuate people to the shore and transported them to the evacuation centre in Mariehamn. There were no reports of injuries.

The coast guard of West Finland took to twitter to inform that there was no oil leak into the water. Jan Hanses, CEO of Viking Line was quoted saying, “Something...

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Mauritius Declares Environmental Emergency Over Oil Spill From Tanker Ship

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MV Wakashio, the tanker that ran aground a reef at Pointe d’Esny on the southeast coast of Mauritius has now caused potentially lasting damage after 1000 tones of oil spilt into the Indian Ocean on Thursday, 6th Aug 2020.

The ship carrying 3800 tonnes of fuel was stranded on the reef since the 25th of July, 2020 following which a salvage team was sent. No injuries were reported by the crew of 20 members who are now quarantining on the island, confirmed owner Nagishiki Shipping.

However, the...

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Real Life Incident: Fatigued Master Leads To Grounding

Fatigue May Lead To Grounding

A small vessel was on a short sea trading routine, making shuttle trips between two ports separated by approximately 12 hours sailing. On the ballast leg of the route, the Master had taken the night watch to allow the chief mate to rest, as he would be busy all the next day with cargo operations once in port.

There was no lookout on the bridge during any part of the voyage because, according to the Master, the crew had worked so hard during the unloading period.

At one point the Master altered...

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Officer Was Watching Videos Before MV Priscilla Grounded – Report

Priscilla Aground

On 18 July 2018, the Netherlands registered general cargo vessel Priscilla ran aground on Pentland Skerries, Scotland. For about 2 hours prior to the accident, the officer of the watch had been unaware that Priscilla was drifting away from the planned passage.

When the officer of the watch realised what had happened, the route chosen to regain the navigational plan resulted in the vessel heading directly into danger. The accident happened because the officer of the watch was distracted from the...

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