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Real Life Incident: Bottom Touch While Under Pilotage

Bottom Touch While Under Pilotage

In good weather and in darkness, a tanker took on two pilots for port entry in the early morning hours (03:00). According to reports, there was a perfunctory Master/pilot exchange after which one of the pilots took the con. The inbound passage plan had been prepared by the crew and the ECDIS Charts marked with “No Go” areas and parallel indexing.

However, the actual pilot boarding area differed from the planned one hence, after pilot boarding, the vessel was not on the planned route – they were...

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Real Life Incident: Lack Of Physical Barriers Invites A Tight Squeeze

Lack of physical barriers invites a tight squeeze

A small hopper-dredger equipped with a deck grab crane was occupied with the refurbishment of a port breakwater. The work involved lifting boulders from the cargo hold with the deck grab crane and positioning them at the breakwater. The chief engineer, who maintained direct contact with the crane operator via a portable radio, was on the bridge overseeing the operation.

The Master, who was new to the ship and had joined only two weeks earlier, was occupied with administrative tasks. At one point...

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Real Life Incident: Tanker Hits Charted Shoal While Approaching Berth

tanker with vessel damage

A chemical carrier was inbound for a port in good visibility and weather conditions. This was the first time the Master and OOW had entered this particular port. In preparing the passage plan, slack water had been chosen as a time best suited to berth as the tidal stream would be minimal. Low water was predicted to be at 1515 with a height of 1.1 metres, and the plan was to arrive around this time. The next daylight slack water was just over 19 hours later at high tide with a height of 4.7...

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Real Life Incident: Crewmember’s Fatal Fall Into A Hold

open hold

A bulk carrier in ballast was underway. The deck crew were washing the cargo holds, as clean holds were necessary for the planned arrival for loading in two days. Two teams were working at different locations.

The hatch covers of holds 1 and 2 were partially opened in order to remove the remaining corn cargo lying at the cross joint channels of the hatch covers. This resulted in a large gap at the middle cross joint. A crewmember started washing the top of hatch cover panels No.2-1 and 2-2,...

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Case Study: Captain’s Sleep Inertia Led To Tow Striking Lock Gate

Ava Claire under way before the casualty.

A captain assuming a watch immediately after waking led to a tow striking a lock gate in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the National Transportation Safety Board said in Marine Investigation Report 22/09 released Tuesday.

On March 22, 2021, the towing vessel Ava Claire was transiting westbound pushing two fully loaded tank barges in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Intracoastal City, Louisiana. After entering the Leland Bowman Lock, the bow of the lead barge struck a closed lock gate,...

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Man Pleads Guilty Of Attacking Three Crewmates & Killing One

Crime - Criminal

A scalloping ship crew member, Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, who reportedly attacked three crew members, eventually killing one, pleaded guilty in Boston’s federal court on Wednesday for murder in the 2018 incident off the Massachusetts coast. Meave, 31, admitted to stabbing a crew member on board Captain Billy Haver, a fishing vessel, and hurting two more with a hammer, court documents revealed.

While sailing for approximately 55 miles off the Nantucket coast on 23 September 2018, Meave first...

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Real Life Incident: Boiler Overpressure On Ship Causes Three Fatalities

springs of boilers

A drill ship holding position offshore was due to carry out the annual servicing of its two auxiliary boilers. The boilers were used only for well test operations and had not been operated since the last annual service, except for maintenance operations.

The duty engineers brought the boilers up to temperature and pressure specifications in preparation for the annual checks. As this was underway, the pressure safety valves opened. They appeared to open at 1.9 bar for boiler 1 and 5.9 bar for...

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Diesel Generator Engine Failure Leads To Fire Aboard Offshore Supply Vessel

The yellow bracket identifies the damaged area of the main crankshaft of the number 3 diesel generator

The National Transportation Safety Board issued Marine Accident Brief 21/26 Wednesday, detailing its investigation of the diesel generator engine failure and subsequent fire aboard offshore supply vessel Ocean Intervention on Dec. 19, 2020, near Honolulu, Hawaii.

No pollution or injuries to the 16 crew members were reported in connection with the mechanical failure, which resulted in a fire in the engine room. The crew isolated the fire before it could spread throughout the vessel. Damage to the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/case-studies/diesel-generator-engine-failure-leads-to-fire-aboard-offshore-supply-vessel/

Case Study: Tanker Master’s Fatigue Led To $72.9 Million Accident

Tanker Ship

A tanker operating company’s decision to change masters without a handover period led to a $72.9 million marine accident, according to a National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Brief issued Tuesday.

Marine Accident Brief 21/24 details the NTSB’s investigation of the Oct. 17, 2020, striking of the oil and gas production platform SP-57B by the tanker Atina near Pilottown, Louisiana. The Atina, with a crew of 21, was attempting to anchor in the Southwest Pass Fairway Anchorage in the...

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Unattended Burning Candles, Inoperable Fire-Detection System Caused $6.78M In Damage

yacht-Andiamo-is-seen-ablaze-and-listing-to-starboard-as-fireboats-attempt-to-extinguish-the-fire.-Photo-courtesy-of-Miami-Dade-Fire-Rescue

Candles lit and left unattended in a yacht’s VIP suite caused a fire that resulted in the total loss of the $6.3M yacht and $480,000 in damage to a Miami marina and adjacent vessels, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s Marine Accident Brief 21/17, issued Thursday.

No injuries were reported in connection with the Dec. 18, 2019, fire aboard the 120-foot-long, 299-gross-ton, private yacht Andiamo. Firefighting efforts resulted in flooding that led to the yacht capsizing onto its...

https://www.marineinsight.com/case-studies/unattended-burning-candles-inoperable-fire-detection-system-caused-6-78m-in-damage/

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