NTSB issues ‘Safer Seas 2013’ report
Allision damage to the Overseas Reymars aft starboard side.
(Image Credit: USCG)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a reportentitled “Safer Seas 2013: Lessons Learned From Marine Accident Investigations,“. The report is a summarized compilation of marine accident investigations that were published in 2013.
Safer Seas 2013 is designed to be a quick and easy read. But Safer Seas also contains links to NTSB’s detailed investigative reports for each of the years marine accidents 21 of them in 2013.
Safer Seas is also consolidated by vessel type, so that readers can more easily ind reports relevant to their area of interest. NTSB hopes that this document gives operators and others such as safety professionals an easy-to-use tool to ind the circumstances closest to those they encounter in their own area of interest. At the same time, Safer Seas should serve to inform and remind mariners of lessons learned in all areas, and increase awareness of the safety issues identiied.
As many of these accident reports demonstrate, constant vigilance is critical to improving safety. Of all the systems on board a vessel, a human being is the most complex, and perhaps the most dificult one to integrate into a system of safer transportation. So long as human beings serve in marine transportation, however, the human element is also the only one that can never truly be replaced.
But if mariners are not constantly vigilant and if their organizations culture does not reinforce their respect for marine safety, humans themselves can cause incidents, accidents, and even tragedies.
Whether its a ire resulting from a crewmember ignoring procedures, or a navigational accident caused by an error in judgment (such as the loss of the HMS Bounty in Superstorm Sandy), too often people put themselves and others at risk.
For more information please read the report by clicking on the image below:
