Tag: fatality onboard

A fatal accident happened on board a Hong Kong registered bulk carrier when anchoring at the port of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. In response, the Hong Kong Marine Department issued note to address lessons learned and highlight the importance of enhancing shipboard safe operation training for the key operations.

Seven people are confirmed dead after a passenger vessel caught fire off Quezon province, Philippines, on May 23.

INTERCARGO published its Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2012-2021, reporting that 27 bulk carriers of over 10,000 dwt were declared as total losses for the years 2012-2021.

An Italian tugboat with six people onboard capsized and sank on May 19 in the Adriatic Sea, leaving five crew members missing, Italian authorities said.

Hong Kong Merchant Shipping provides lessons learned from an incident where a Bosun was found dead on the first landing platform inside a deck entry access to the cargo hold of a bulk carrier.

It has been over a century after a ship collision shook the entire city of Halifax, killing almost 2,000 people and injuring more than 9,000. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ) and not surpassed until an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 3 decades later.

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB provides lessons learned from an incident where two yachts collided at the anchorage, resulting in fatally injuring a crewman who was on the foredeck.

In its latest monthly safety scenario, the Swedish Club describes an incident where an AB lost his balance during a wire change operation, resulting in falling onto the hatch cover from a height of about 8 metres and losing his life.

A crewmember of the MSC Ravenna has pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing a crewmate while under way in the Pacific in 2020.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about an incident where a worker lost his life while scrapping BW Offshore’s Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit Cidade de Sao Vicente.