The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (Statens Haverikommission; SHK) has published its report on an investigation into the tragic death of a crewmember on a passenger vessel on a Swedish-flagged ferry on June 27, 2022. On the said date, a marine engineer was found unconscious on board Stena...
Twelve people are confirmed to have died after a tour boat capsized in a river in Hebei province in northern China on Saturday, April 13. The unidentified vessel was transporting passengers on the Qinlong River near the village of Qinhuangdao when the incident occurred at around 14:30 local time on...
Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
The Government of Guyana has selected French shipbuilder OCEA for the construction of a new offshore patrol vessel (OPV) for operation by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). The vessel will have an aluminium hull, a length of 58 metres, space for 24 crewmembers and up to 30 additional personnel, a...
Three mariners, who were stranded for over a week on the deserted Pikelot Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), were rescued on April 9, 2024, thanks to a…
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Officials of the Royal Thai Navy said the captain of a warship that sank in bad weather in late 2022 had taken “imprudent” actions that resulted in the ship’s loss along with at least 24 of its crew. An investigation revealed that Captain Phichitchai Thueannadee, commanding officer of the corvette...
Prosecutors in Russia have told local media that one person was killed while three others suffered varying degrees of injury after a fire broke out on an icebreaker that is still under construction on Monday, April 8. The 106-metre Yekaterina Velikaya was at a shipyard in Vladivostok undergoing...
Authorities in Mozambique have confirmed that more than 90 people were killed after a passenger ferry capsized and sank off Nampula province in the country’s northern coast on Sunday, April 7. The unidentified vessel was transporting over 130 people, many of whom were reportedly attempting to flee...
The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger; DGzRS) formally named the newest vessel to join its fleet of rescue boats in a ceremony on Sunday, April 7. Helene is the latest example in a series of 8.9-metre rescue boats that also includes SRB 86,...
Nine crewmembers of a fishing boat suffered injuries after a fire ignited and caused a gas cylinder to explode on board their vessel off the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam on Friday, April 5. The locally-registered fishing vessel Durga Bhavani was in the Bay of Bengal 65 nautical miles off...