Tag: collision

Marsh insurance has released a new report, discussing the key areas that may be common to ship versus ship collisions, dangerous events with the potential to bring areas of difficulty to insurance claims.

In the past few weeks, a US Navy destroyer collided fatally with a huge commercial vessel. This is a very rare event which actually happened twice in a short period of time during this summer. In view of this, maritime experts presented considerations into the possible misleads that lead to these incidents.

RMI issued an advisory referring to causal factors that have led to marine casualties off Singapore and Chittagong. Following a five-year review of collisions, allisions and groundings in the areas, the Flag Administration noted that many of the casualties occurred in designated anchorages.

US Navy announced that marine corps divers have now recovered the remains of all ten missing navy sailors, following the fatal collision between USS John S McCain warship and Alnic MC tanker, off Singapore, on 21 August.

The US navy announced that the divers searching for the USS McCain's missing crew have recovered the remains of one Sailor, confirmed as Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Nine crew men are still unaccounted for.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore informed that multi-agency search and rescue efforts are continued, to locate the remaining unaccounted crew of USS John S McCain, and the search area was further expanded to 5524 km2, from 2620 km2 earlier.

The US navy decided an operational pause of it fleet around the world, to review navigational safety issues, after the collision of the US warship John S McCain that resulted in ten missing and five injured sailors.

Divers investigating the collision of US navy warship John S. McCain and tanker Alnic MC have discovered some of the 10 missing US Navy sailors inside the guided-missile destroyer, according to data revealed by Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral, Scott Swift.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore informed in an updated statement that it continues Search and Rescue operations, to  locate the 10 crew who are unaccounted for, after the collision of US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain with the oil tanker Alnic MC, in the early hours of August 21.

Ten crew members are missing and five are injured, after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC, while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, on August 21, according to US Navy.