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On Monday, October 21st, the HM Coastguard assisted with the precautionary evacuation of 115 personnel from the Thistle Platform, operated by Enquest PLC, located almost 125 miles North East of Shetland, just over 100 nautical miles north east of Lerwick.

The non-essential personnel, who were evacuated from the Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead the Tropical Storm Barry, are now returning to their platforms as flights and normal crew-change activities are resuming, Shell informed. 

The Norwegian Safety Petroleum Authority announced that they carried out an audit of Rowan Norway (Rowan) and the company’s arrangements for evacuation from mobile facilities with Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC). The audit was conducted on March 19, 2019, focusing on the barriers around evacuation to the sea using lifeboats, and covered the company’s facilities that have an AoC.

After a fire broke out on the the deck of the Yantian Express, on 3 January, Hapag Lloyd informed that a decision was made to evacuate the crew. The fire is under control and two additional tugs were sent to assist the vessel. The newly-added tugs are the DonJon-owned Atlantic Enterprise and the Boskalis AHTS Sovereign, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. 

The commercial tugboat Maersk Mobiliser will tow Hapag Lloyd's fire-stricken container ship to Halifax, New Scotland, the US Coast Guard informed in an official update. The fire broke out on 3 January in one of the containers onboard the 7,510 TEU container ship 'Yantian Express' about 1,015 miles northeast of Bermuda.

More than 130 workers were evacuated from Shell's 'Brent Charlie' oil platform in North Sea, due to power outage, on 27 November. Crew onboard 'Brent Charlie', located 185km North East of Lerwick, Shetland, contacted the HM Coastguard in the early morning hours of Tuesday reporting that they had lost power and were running on backup batteries.

A total of 15 crew members were evacuated from the 134-foot liftboat 'Ram XVIII', after the vessel started taking on water near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Sunday. The US Coast Guard and good Samaritan vessels headed to the scene after watchstanders at USCG Sector New Orleans received a report at approximately 3:16 a.m. from the 'Ram XVIII' that it was taking on water approximately 23 nm west of Southwest Pass.

Seven people were slightly injured after the Norwegian frigate 'KNM Helge Ingstad' collided with the oil tanker 'Sola TS' off Bergen, Norway, in the early hours of Thursday 8 November. The warship developed dangerous list and all of its 137 crew were evacuated. The tanker suffered minor damage and there was no injury or oil spill reported.

The UK MAIB analyzed an injury case during trials of marine evacuation system (MES) slides. The investigation highlighted that the MES design concept was to accommodate mass evacuation of passengers wearing normal clothing, but not survival suits.  

About 22 crew members were safely evacuated by the Philippine Coast Guard and local authorities, after a bulk carrier, carrying 22 crew and loaded with 20,000 bags of cement, ran aground approximately 100 yards Southeast of Lighthouse Station Tubigan Point, San Jose, Antique, on Monday.