The Mexican Navy has awarded Thordon Bearings a second major contract for the supply of its water-lubricated SXL wear rings for retrofit installation to the waterjet propulsion nozzles on 25 interceptor patrol vessels. The contract follows the success of extensive trials in which the SXL material replaced the use of other anti-corrosive coatings in waterjet impeller housings, resulting in increased resistance to cavitation induced corrosion.
Thordon’s authorized distributor in Mexico, Rotary...
Four people are confirmed dead after a boat carrying tourists sank near the city of Cancun on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, January 29. The tour boat La Diosa del Mar was sailing between the resort island of Isla Mujeres and the municipality of Puerto Juárez when it was struck by a swell,...
The Mexican Navy seized 3.1 kg of cocaine, reportedly thrown from the container ship ‘MOL Majesty’ to a boat with three people onboard, at the Port Ensenada. In a statement, the Second Naval Region announced that it confiscated the three packages on 25 February.
Naval personnel were conducting surveillance tours at the time, when they detected a person throwing a black object into the sea, as well as a suspicious boat in the immediate vicinity of the cruise ship “MOL Majesty”.
As such, two naval...
https://safety4sea.com/container-ship-delayed-over-suspected-cocaine-smuggling-at-port-of-ensenada/
Damen congratulates the Mexican Navy for the flagging and entering into service of their two new dredgers, among which is the Damen Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 650 ARM Laguna Morelos (ADR-19).
The dredger will undertake various dredging, depth maintenance and land reclamation projects in the Gulf of Mexico; the first project being the dredging of the River Grijalba, assigned to the Mexican Navy by the Mexican Federal Government.
“This is the first Dutch dredger delivered to Mexico in years and...
Working in close cooperation, Damen Shipyards Group, the Mexican Navy, subcontractors and suppliers have completed successful sea trials of the Mexican Navy’s POLA-class ARM Reformador.
The programme of sea trials was comprehensive, including testing of platform and combat systems in addition to training of Mexican Navy crews. The completion of these sea trials indicate how the project as a whole is progressing: on budget and actually a few weeks ahead of the contracted schedule.
The ARM...
Two crew were injured in the attack and transferred to a nearby hospital.
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In late afternoon of Saturday, 20 October, a Mexican Navy helicopter crashed into the ocean while engaged in anti-poaching patrols over the vaquita refuge in the Upper Gulf of California (aka Sea of Cortez). 11 of the 12 helicopter crew were rescued, with two seriously injured and one missing.
The MI-17 helicopter was in the middle of a patrol, ensuring the marine protected area in the Upper Gulf of California was free from illegal activities, when it apparently lost control and crashed into...
https://safety4sea.com/watch-mexican-navy-helicopter-crashes-into-the-ocean-during-patrol/