CHIRP – Maritime Feedback 29
Confidential Hazardous Incident Reporting Programme (CHIRP) has received a report from a mariner, regarding a containership’s roll that synchronised with the waves in heavy weather.
Report text:
“The container ship on which I am serving had been in heavy weather for several days. We were proceeding at full speed. During the watch I called the Master as the vessel’s roll was synchronising with the waves, initially to 20 degrees. The ship then rolled to 40 degrees and the engine stopped. Subsequently the synchronisation ceased and the roll angle reduced.
“The vessel suffered damage including flooding of forward compartments with damage to electrical equipment, and shifting of containers.
“We had received weather forecasts of the severe conditions. We should have reduced speed earlier.
It is fortunate that this incident did not lead to fatalities or loss of the vessel. In the absence of more comprehensive information, we are not in a position to comment on the specifics of this report. However the dangers of heavy rolling are illustrated by an accident on the container vessel CMS Chicago Express in 2008 in which the vessel rolled violently to over 40 degrees during a typhoon. The bridge team members were thrown across the wide expanse of the bridge. Tragically an AB died and the Master was severely injured.
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Source: CHIRP -Maritime Feedback 29
