The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its investigation report into the sinking of the fishing vessel Atlantic Destiny and issued a safety concern regarding insufficient crew knowledge on how to properly use CO2 fixed fire suppression systems. On March 2, 2021, the trawler Atlantic Destiny sustained a catastrophic engine failure about 120 […]
Marine safety engineers with the US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor earlier this month, the coast guard said in a press release on Tuesday, October 10. The salvage...
Much work is still needed to bolster rail safety and prevent another tragic accident like the one that happened in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, 10 years ago, the head of the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said on Thursday.
“Despite significant safety action taken by [Transport Canada] and the railway industry to reduce the number of unplanned and uncontrolled movements of rail equipment, such events continue to occur, posing a significant risk to people, property, and the environment,” said TSB...
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The US Coast Guard has convened a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan tourist submersible and the five people on board in the Atlantic Ocean of ..
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its investigation report regarding a fire incident that occurred aboard a bulk carrier near Windsor, Ontario ..
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has eleased its investigation report into the August 2020 sinking of the fishing vessel Arctic Fox II near Bamfield, Briti ..
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is recommending all of the country’s major railways that travel along high-speed corridors or key routes adopt technology similar to positive train control in the United States.
The recommendation for Transport Canada to implement “physical fail-safe train controls” is one of TSB’s determinations that resulted from studying why two CN (NYSE: CNI) trains collided near Portage la Prairie in Manitoba in January 2019. That incident caused derailments...
Transport Canada is now requiring railway companies to submit winter operating plans for their equipment, including how the railways will manage the maintenance of air brakes in very cold temperatures, as part of a broader effort to improve rail safety.
The new mandate aligns with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s recommendations related to a February 2019 derailment in Field, British Columbia, in which a Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) grain unit train derailed, killing three employees.
The...
Personnel of the Canadian Coast Guard and some Good Samaritan fishing boat crews have successfully rescued all occupants of a passenger ferry after it suffered an onboard ..
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) recently released its investigation report into the fatal sinking of the fishing vessel Island Lady in the Labrador Sea in ..
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