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Common methodology for investigating marine casualties and incidents Commission Regulation (No 1286/2011), adopted on 9 December 2011, lays down a common methodology for investigating marine casualties and incidents pursuant to Directive 2009/18/EC.To recall, the Accident Investigation Directive 2009/18/EC formed part of Europe's Third Maritime Safety Package. It established the principles of accident investigation and supplemented the IMO rules with provisions that require Member States to appoint independent investigative bodies to investigate all marine incidents.In order to provide common standards applicable to all investigations, the investigative body of the leading Member State should follow a common methodology when investigating marine casualties and incidents.The Commission, with the help of the Committee of Safe Seas (COSS) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), has now come forward with this set of legal requirements spelling out the common methodology, which is binding and directly applicable to all Member States.In particular, the Regulation lays down provisions regarding the following.Operational readiness Each investigative body should have a preparedness plan in place to ensure that resources and procedures are immediately available in case of accidents.Initial assessment and response Upon receiving notification of an accident, the investigative body should carry out an initial assessment of the overall event. ...

Maintenance of the wires had been hindered by the design of the davit Poor maintenance and a design flaw have been blamed for the death of a cruise ship worker who plunged into the water and drowned while working on a lifeboat in Lyttelton this year.The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) launched an investigation after two men fell from the cruise ship Volendam while carrying out routine maintenance on a starboard lifeboat in January.One of the men was rescued shortly afterward. The other man was seen in the water briefly in what appeared to be a dazed state, but he soon disappeared.He could not be found despite a search by the ship's rescue vessel, Coastguard, the port authority and emergency services.Port authority divers found the man's body about four hours later.The TAIC report, released today, found that the men fell from the lifeboat after one of the two wires attaching it to the ship failed.The men were wearing safety harnesses but the wire holding the harnesses to the ship also failed during the accident.Neither man was wearing a buoyancy device.The lifeboat remained attached to the ship by the aft wire but suffered irreparable damage.The accident also caused damage to the ...

DMA issues casualty report about accident to a seafarer The Division for Investigation of Maritime Accidents/Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board has published a report about accident to a seafarer.While preparing for departure a ship's assistant fell from the gangway. The lifting wire to the gangway got stuck in one of the stanchions and in an attempt to loosen it the ship's assistant fell approximate 5 metres to the pier. The Casualty Report can be read here.Source: Danish Maritime Authority

A formal approach to accident and injury prevention onboard A component of The Ship Safety Suite, The Program of Shipboard Safety offers a formal approach to accident and injury prevention that applies to all crew personnel as well as to vendors and subcontractors working aboard the vessel, and to shipyard and office personnel. The program explains procedures for identifying hazards and managing risks and delineates a formal chain of accountability that assigns everyone a role in eliminating accidents and injuries. It stresses the importance of overlapping layers of responsibility for accident and injury prevention and outlines defined responsibilities for personnel involved in the work task. The program proposes guidelines for managing the task, and for near miss reporting, hazards and risks, job hazard analysis, permits to work and auditing

Count of misconduct of a ship operator causing death Matthew R. Devlin was charged today in an information with one count of misconduct of a ship operator causing death, in relation to the "Duck boat" accident on the Delaware River on July 7, 2010, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Special Agent-in-Charge William P. Hicks, U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service.In this accident, the barge The Resource, which was towed by the towing vessel M/V Caribbean Sea piloted by defendant Devlin, ran over a boat operated by the tourism company Ride the Ducks International LLC. As a result, two passengers on the Duck boat who were visiting from Hungary, Szabolcs Prem, 20, and Dora Schwendtner, 16, were killed.Devlin, 35, of Catskill, New York, was charged under a federal criminal statute (Section 1115 of Title 18 of the United States Code) applicable to involuntary manslaughter committed by the operator of a vessel.The information alleges that "for an extended period of time prior to the collision, was distracted by his use of a cell phone and a laptop computer to attend to personal matters; elected to pilot the Caribbean Sea from its lower wheelhouse, where he had significantly reduced visibility in ...

European Union - EMSA Maritime Accident Review Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has recently published its fourth annual Maritime Accident Review of accidents involving commercial ships and fishing vessels within the European Union, including Norway and Iceland, during 2010. Although the Review does not focus on the root causes, it highlights the key points of significant accidents which occurred throughout last year and features various statistics based on the information that EMSA has received.You can view the Maritime Accident Report by clicking here.Source: EMSA

Neither rescue training nor emergency skills The Transport Accident Investigation Commission says two crew members who died on a Korean logging ship had no warning of the dangers of organic cargo, no rescue training and no emergency skills.The commission on Wednesday released its findings on the death of the chief officer and the bosun of the TPC Wellington at Port Marsden in May last year.The chief officer lost consciousness while he was climbing into the ship's hold and fell from the ladder onto the logs below. The crew member who tried to save him also passed out, fell and died within minutes.The Commission says the men were killed by a lack of oxygen and the presence of toxic gases caused by the organic decomposition of logs.It says oxygen levels in the hold were 1% - 3% - low enough to cause unconsciousness in seconds.The Commission says the dangers from organic cargoes are well known in the maritime community, but the ship's crew had had no warnings on those hazards, no rescue training and no emergency drills.It says it will forward its findings to the International Maritime Organisation.Source: Radio New Zealand News