The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a deadly engine room fire that broke out Jan. 8, 2024, when the Danaos-operated containership Stride was bunkering while docked at the Barbours Cut Marine Terminal in LaPorte, Texas.
The fire self-extinguished after crewmembers shut down all ventilation to the engine room. Two crewmembers died as a result of the fire and one was seriously injured. The 1997-built Stride was declared a total loss valued at $12 million and was...
A fatal engine room fire aboard the cargo vessel Stride, which claimed two lives and resulted in $12 million in total losses, was caused by the installation of an incorrect…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its report on an August 11, 2024, engine room fire aboard the fishing vessel Three Girls that led to an estimated $1.3 million in damage to the vessel. The failure of a component on the hydraulic system for on-deck fishing equipment is seen as the probable cause of the fire.
On the day of the fire, the 1979-built, 81.6 foot long Three Girls was fishing in the Gulf of Maine when the engine room fire broke out, The five crewmembers and a...
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/
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that inadequate anchor chain scope and navigational errors led to the grounding and total loss of the cargo vessel Bonnie G in St. Thomas,…
https://gcaptain.com/ntsb-improper-anchor-chain-scope-led-to-1-5m-vessel-loss-in-caribbean/
Not for the first time, the National Transportation Safety Board has issued a report involving a crane, a barge and a bridge. This latest report deals with an incident that occurred on May 7, 2023, when the 1973- built towing vessel Nickelena, operated by Basic Towing, was transiting the Straits of Mackinac, towing a deck barge transporting a crawler crane, when the crane boom struck the main span of the Mackinac Bridge.
The contact bent the crane boom backwards, causing the boom to eventually...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that wake effects from passing ships led to a barge strike at New Orleans’ Algiers Lock, resulting in $2 million in damage. On…
Surging water from the Mississippi River led to a 2023 barge strike on a gate at Algiers Lock in New Orleans, the National Transportation Safety Board says,
The NTSB found the surge was likely due to wake effects from deep draft ships transiting the Mississippi River adjacent to the Algiers Lock forebay during extremely low water conditions, which moved water in and out of the forebay and lock chamber, causing the vessels in those areas to surge.
The Algiers Lock connects the Mississippi River to...
An improperly extinguished chafing fuel canister sparked a costly fire aboard the passenger vessel Spirit of Boston while it was moored at Commonwealth Pier in Boston Harbor, according to findings…
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the March 24, 2923, fire aboard the 1990-built passenger vessel Spirit of Boston, operated by City Cruises US. The 153-foot vessel caught fire while moored at Commonwealth Pier in Boston. There were no passengers onboard at the time, but the fire resulted in $3.1 million in damages to the vessel.
NTSB investigators determined the Spirit of Boston fire started under a plastic glassware rolling cart after an improperly...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/what-caused-spirit-of-boston-fire/